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Stoic Reflections

Pride and Ego

Stoic Reflection on inner strength, how ego traps us and humility sets us free.

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Dec 20, 2024
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"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk." — Marcus Tullius Cicero.

This is part of the Stoic Reflection series. You can browse all reflections here


Your ego is telling you a story right now.

About how special you are.

About how right you are.

About how they're all wrong.

It's whispering in your ear during every argument. Every criticism. Every moment someone disagrees with you.

"How dare they?"

"Don't they know who you are?"

"You can't let them think they're right."

And there you go again - defending, explaining, justifying. Building walls with words. Creating armor out of arguments. Turning conversations into battlegrounds where someone must win and someone must lose.

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." — Norman Vincent Peale

Look at how much energy you spend protecting this image of yourself.

This carefully constructed identity.

This house of cards you call your ego.


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