I enjoy this point of view

Excellent post there project..here are a few of my learnings....
I have often noticed when we see failure in life - failure of the ego, the ego tries to overcome that failure.The defense mechanisms are
initiated , which gives us energy to work hard and overcome the failure. This is our survival instinct.
..But, when life hurts the ego, if we introspect for a moment and think of ourselves as different from the ego, we can realize what we have been permanently and that ego is just a covering on our consiousness. Our desires, our needs, our feelings, our deeds, our losses, our despair, our anger, our jealousy, are all driven by our ego, our need to survive.
So is the good and bad in our mind . When we think of ourselves ..even in the most saddest or happiest moment in life as the one , which has always been there, before and always will be there after, then all these different things around us vanish and a sublime realization of one-ness, where no thoughts exist and even physical bliss is just a covering over the greatest knowledge of the self. the knowledge that there is no I or we , just the dot, and the rest is just a projection on the screen. May be this is what they meant by Maya...and we call ego.
Birth and death are a cycle, the ego can only protect our survival till the body is capable of surviving. But the soul...always there just the same, just the blissful , just the all-knowing, keeps guiding the ego to forget itself in every birth and remembering that it is actually the soul...