---
title: "The Ego | What is Ego? - Spiritual Sanctuary"
description: "The Ego, what is ego as defined by Eckhart Tolle Do you feel like you are in the grips of ego? Do you feel like you are seeking yourself and thereby losing yourself in forms grossly classified as material objects, physical objects and/or thought? Is there a voice in your head that never stops speaking?  Does every thought totally absorb your attention completely? Are you so identified with the voice in your head and the accompanying emotions that you lose yourself in every thought and emotion? For instance, when you think of a person, place or situation and then instantly feel an emotion regarding it."
url: "https://www.seekwithinyou.com/blog/healing/the-ego-what-is-ego"
date: "2026-07-14T18:24:54+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

The following article is from the March 2011 edition of Seek Within You's *Free Quarterly Newsletter.* [Sign up](https://www.seekwithinyou.com/about/newsletter#newsletter "Meditation Quarterly Newsletter") to enjoy more articles to help you in the process of improving your mind, body and spiritual health through meditation.

![ego](https://www.seekwithinyou.com/images/ego_500_373.jpg "ego")Do you feel like you are in the grips of ego? Do you feel like you are seeking yourself and thereby losing yourself in forms grossly classified as material objects, physical objects and/or thought? Is there a voice in your head that never stops speaking? Does every thought totally absorb your attention completely? Are you so identified with the voice in your head and the accompanying emotions that you lose yourself in every thought and emotion? For instance, when you think of a person, place or situation and then instantly feel an emotion regarding it. You either continuously think about it and feel the emotions or your thoughts continue throughout the day going from one person, place or situation and feeling an emotion with it. These feelings can range anywhere from fear to love. If this sounds familiar to you, then you can consider yourself identified with forms and in the grips of ego.

Ego is a conglomeration of recurring thought forms and conditioned mental/emotional patterns that are invested with a sense of "I"; a sense of self. Ego arises when your sense of being, which is "I am" gets mixed up with form. Body identification is one of the basic forms of ego. An easy way to disidentify yourself with ego is to get in touch with your inner body. When you are in touch with your inner body, you are not identified with your body or mind. Being in touch with the intensely alive energy field within you anchors you in the present moment and is a doorway out of the prison of ego.

Listen below to an audio excerpt by Echart Tolle's [A New Earth (Oprah #61)](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PC0S5K/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000PC0S5K&linkCode=as2&tag=onlimediselfh-20) talking about feeling the inner body and the ego.

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