The ego can never stop—in the end, it will build a cage right around you, if you let it.
It seems we must choose things that thwart the fuel on which the ego feeds—to pursue other people, viewpoints, perspectives. To pursue community, not just ourselves; believing that we are not well-enough defended to protect ourselves on our own and that attempting to do so only perpetuates the very thing that will trap us after all, ourselves alone.
