Ego

"Ego is the problem, that's why you cannot know yourself.
The ego gives you certain false images of yourself, and if you carry those images for a long time, you become afraid.
The fear enters that if your image falls, then your identity will be broken.
You create a false face and then you become afraid; if this false face falls, who will you be ?
You will go mad in it.
And everybody thinks about himself in such lofty terms, in such false terms; nobody agrees with him, nobody approves, but then your ego thinks that everybody is wrong."

Osho