When nearly fifty musical superstars arrived at the studio to record the charity song “We Are the World,” legendary music producer Quincy Jones had a sign greeting them: “Leave your ego at the door.”
Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of Christian Science, offers a divinely inspired view of ego. In her writings, she uses the term Ego with a capital “E” to refer to God, describing God as “the great I am” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 587).
She explains, “. . . the Ego is absent from the body, and present with Truth and Love” (Science and Health, p. 14). From this perspective, thoughts such as “I am afraid” or “I am hurt” don’t originate from the all-knowing, all-loving I am. Instead, they stem from a mistaken sense of self—a personal ego—fixated on material concerns.
