lego my ego yo

I recently wrote the below excerpt to my brother Ted as a reply to an email he sent to me regarding contemplating the ego. He sent me an interesting link to Spiritual Teachings Glossary of Terms.

"What is powerful for me is to "believe" in what is real. Since the ego is a construction, even if it has been constructed for survival purposes, it is real only as a construction; it is real and not real at the same time. That is an example of a realistic belief. Aligning the mind with realistic understandings brings happiness due to less suffering from unrealistic beliefs. Unrealistic beliefs are confusing, cause struggle, and place great amounts of stress in our minds and lives. So, through developing pure mind consciousness, the thinking/feeling/ego mind (that we usually use) has the ability to change from the contingencies of enculturation toward realistic living in the now. This is what I embrace, cultivate, practice, and enjoy. Life, reality, experience, happiness, action, effort."