Ego satisfaction

"Everything in life is ego satisfaction" he said,I ask 'why do you say so?'.
'Don't just argue on its literal value,think deeply about it'
'You help a begger,you feel an internal satisfaction -ego satisfaction',you love your parents,you feel a warmth in your heart-who feels it? YOU!! again ego satisfied,Passion - something drives you to do,achieve or know something,again the emphasis is on 'you'.Any instance or action you take in life is centralised around you.
I say "what about sacrifices?"
A mother makes a sacrifice for her children,why? because she has the thought 'MY children should do well'-again the 'me',A soldier sacrifices his life for his country and thinks 'Its MY country,If I don't protect it who will?MY life can save a thousand other lives'

In different dimensions and circles you can define the different 'YOU',so essentially every thought ,every action you take in life is 'ego satisfaction' in some form or the other. I go 'hmmm... ,hmmm..' all the time.I am still hmmmming about it.

In a way i agree,everything we do in life,every action we take,every emotion we go through is defined in how we see life and how we have defined our realities,the emphasis in the whole previous statement being on 'We' which is the same as 'I'.

This might be a bit difficult to understand initially because when you say this people immediately go into a defensive mode saying 'not true',for many an 'Ego' is a negative terminology . In fact i had a swell time arguing with another of my friend trying to buy him into this concept and he still stubbornly refuses the statement.In his reality this statement is baseless,in my definition of reality it makes a lot of sense.So whether you will agree with it or not will depend on how your realities are defined.