Dr. Alok Kanojia
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Brother.
All of that stuff is ego.
Okay.
So ego is anything.
When you say I am dot, dot, dot.
Anything that defines you after that is actually part of your ego.
And the interesting thing is that it's not that the ego is bad.
This is a common misconception.
But like ego, we all need ego to function in the world.
If you are okay not functioning in the world and you're moving towards enlightenment, then you no longer need ego.
But generally speaking, we need ego.
So, you know, if you're looking for a roadmap of what you truly want in life and what is healthy for you and not healthy for you, when you say you're Andrew, right, there's a lot of other people who can claim to be Andrew, but they're not you.
You're talking about a fundamental internal experience of the self.
And you were Andrew before you were a boyfriend.
You were Andrew.
You've always been a son.
But you actually you were Andrew before you even knew you were a son.
Right.
Right.
You were still Andrew.