So long as people have an ego...

So long as people have an ego, they live from their visual, auditory, kinesthetic, emotional, and linguistic maps of reality rather than reality.

The ego is, in psychoanalysis, the division of the psyche that is conscious, most immediately controls thought and behavior, and is most in touch with external reality (American Heritage Dictionary). Given this, living through the ego necessarily requires that one will process their reality from their V-A-K maps of reality. Emotion is the ego response to the reality and the language is the best description of the reality. In all these ways of experiencing, none of them are reality. They are our best representation filtered through the ego.

To be in your ego self is a good thing so long as you recognize that you are acting from your ego and you remember that you are more than your ego. You are a spiritual being experiencing the ego.

Best wishes to you,
-Lane