The ego

The ego is your other self, it is currently your prominent self.  Ego affects everything you do and everything you feel.  Accepting peace is difficult because the ego does not want peace, it wants problems, it wants something to sustain it.  How do you know when this happens?  This happens when you get sad or upset, the ego will add to the emotion with past mostly negative experiences.  For example, you fail a test and you are frustrated because you wanted to pass, the ego will bring up past failures and add them to the current experience and before you realize it, you think you are a complete failure because the ego has piled on several totally unrelated experiences.  I will let you ponder this post and my next post I will talk about temporary happiness.  Once you recognize the obstacles preventing peace, then we can work towards removing the obstacles and walking the path of peace.