“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The ego feels threatened by the extended “leave of absence” it must take, becomes wary of sleep, and sets up barriers against the dream state. [...]

When he has not sold any stories or books for a while, then he looks around for other ego satisfactions in the outside world, in other fields, for which he is actually not willing to pay the price. [...]

He looks for satisfaction for his ego in the outside world when it has been bruised because of a rejection slip. [...]

[...] The ego will simply be bypassed, but the other layers of the self, the neurological structures particularly, will continue to operate as always. [...]

[...] The ego is not even aware of them. [...]

The ego’s desire for health and the organism’s impetus toward health, are constant balances, and are always present. [...]

[...] Now Ruburt’s ego had been hit over the head, so to speak, so many times in his childhood that it became very sensitive, developing a rigidity out of self-protection.

[...] Starting with the ego or waking consciousness as the outer self focused toward exterior reality, these states are broad, more like plains to be explored. [...]

[...] Disastrous courses can be averted through such inner communications and illuminations, whether or not the ego is aware of them.

[...] As you know, telepathy operates constantly beneath the dictates of the ego, and so is your intellectual climate formed.

[...] It does not discriminate, as the ego does, between one kind of experience and another.

[...] The position was threatening because it represented a possible dilution of his energies from his main objective of writing, into a superficial ego satisfaction, which would have left him basically not only unsatisfied but personally betrayed.

He would, believe it or not, have ended up with a higher title within five years, though not of director, and it would have so soothed his inner ego that it would have settled for this. [...]

With man’s own exteriorized ego, this leads to the question of free will and the making of conscious choices.

[...] The spider has no intellect or outer ego, and his manipulations are the direct result of activities performed by pure and spontaneous use of the inner senses. [...]

[...] I liked the analogy of the spider and his web because it is such a simple and uncomplicated example of camouflage construction, divorced from intermediaries such as ego or tools.

Give the spider an ego and an intellect and you will see then how the picture would change. [...]

[...] You perceive realities of which the physical form is aware, but the ego is unaware. [...]

[...] But they are a part of your heritage, a part of your inner knowledge, and we want you to use them consciously and with egotistical awareness now, for your ego is not to be treated as a stepchild, as a poor relative. [...]

[...] You have allowed the ego to become a counterfeit self, and you take its word because you will not hear the muffled voice that is within it.

[...] And without that spontaneous discipline, there would be no ego to sit upon the shoulders and demand discipline. [...]

“The complicated human personality with its physical structure has evolved, along with some other structures, a highly differentiated ‘I’ consciousness [the ego, in other words], whose very nature is such that it attempts to preserve the apparent boundaries of identity. [...]

“Now all of this is basic knowledge if you would understand why the personality accepts even an impeding action such as illness despite the ego’s resistence to pain.”

The ego, not yet fully formed, allows them more freedom. [...]

They are actually more conscious of their dreams, for the ego does not prevent awareness at this stage to the same degree that it will do later.

The struggle between the ego and intuitional self follows here as I have told you, but with the correct use of energy these elements are balanced.

It is turned inward mainly in terms of the ego. [...]

The knot, or the main concentration of focus, in ego concern, prevents true refreshment, either through the inner self or from the outer world. [...]

[...] They saw themselves as vulnerable solitary points of egos, riding perilously and unprotected upon the tumultuous waves of involuntary processes.

Now first of all, there are no limitations or divisions to the self, though for purposes of discussion a word like “ego” may be used here because you understand what you think it means. [...]

[...] When the ego is resilient this mechanism works automatically and well. It is the ego in many cases who clogs the works, so to speak.

[...] Her ego has given up the struggle. [...]

[...] It also helps prevent the conscious ego from snapping too quickly back, as is what happens often in Mark’s case.

[...] Nevertheless, one of the problems for the personality is still the need for a more disciplined ego.

[...] It has no ego to cut the ‘I’ identification short. Creatures without the compartment of the ego can easily follow their own identity beyond any change of form.”

It is better, as I have said often, that the ego not be shunted aside.

[...] Nevertheless the ego is a part of the self. [...]

Your own present personalities are merely the result of the particular qualities and ego-images (hyphen) upon which you have chosen to focus your energies and your intent. [...]

The one stability between self and what is notself, and the one and only difference, is not an identity that is part and parcel of constantly changing physical framework, not the outer ego whose conception of who it is constantly changes, according to its age and environment, but the inner self behind all physical constructions.