A principal characteristic of the ego is the attachment to the opinions about oneself. That is to say, a self-image has been built that does not want to dissolve and would rather continue as it is. This is what we call the ‘person’; it is the maintenance of a self-image. When it comes to the ‘person’, each conscious activity of the body-mind involves the supposition that there is an ‘I’ doing something, and that this ‘I’ is a continuous, enduring entity.
