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If we analyse the ego, we find it to be a collection of past memories retained from experience and future hopes or fears which anticipate experience. If we try to seize it, to separate it out by itself, we do not find it to exist in the present moment, only in what has gone and what is to come. In fact, it never really exists in the NOW but only seems to. This means that it is a phantom without substance, a false idea.

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 2 : I-thought > # 14 -- Perspectives > Chapter 8: The Ego > # 34