The ego wants to keep us involved with and limited by its small or petty grievances and worries. This keeps it fully employed.
It is not our smallness that scares us but our greatness. Or at least this threatens the ego which harvests its power and influence by keeping us in its confines.
It is as though this drop of water does not recognize it is actually the ocean.
Feel the ocean and recognize who we really are!
The Every Day Yogi 