A shift in awareness from being centred in a subject within experience to the source of experience in its totality has nothing to do with dissolving the ego. A strong sense of self is required in order to go your own way, as you must, and with this desire, attachment, love are all integral to health of the soul. It depends, however, on how you define ego. If it is taken  as correlative to the family of attitudes and affects centred on envy then it's certainly no help, but an endlessly draining deflection of energy. Two different readings of 'standing in your own way', perhaps, but however it is it is better to work with what's given than to attempt to fix it.