Want

In Western capitalist consumerist culture we have been so conditioned to want that we can end up thinking we want things that we don't really want. Or perhaps we once wanted something but actually we don't still want it but we still think we do. In this way want has actually becomes an addiction. And that means that even when we get something we want, we aren't satisfied because an addiction is never satisfied.

The ego functions in exactly the same way. It is always wanting. It never has enough and so it can never be satisfied. I wish I'd realised this sooner in life because this understanding has really helped me. In many ways want is the ego and the ego is want.