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If you are asked how you are, the most honest answer, even in the optimal case, is this: - Quite well. The ego is never really well. He always lacks something, and this lack drives him. He does not stop even when he is in great joy. There is no joy so great as to stop. Something is always poking at him, he always needs something, and a desire cannot be fulfilled without missing something else: usually the essence. If you get something, you feel it is not enough; if someone speaks to him, he looks over his shoulder to see if someone else is coming, and if someone else comes, it's not the "real" one either. Man is a prisoner of mortality. The ego is born for one life.