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Originally Posted by BeyondBewildered 
Would quieting the mind serve a purpose? Or dissolving the ego? You already are what you are, there is nothing to change. How can can thinking something help you become one with the universe if you already are the universe? The purpose often seems to really be merging the ego with the universe. The idea that by eliminating the ego you will find or become you is flawed; you already are you.
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I do wonder about the merging of the ego with the universe. It's more that we can see the ego as an illusion and it lines up with the universe or spirit/soul. I don't think we can eliminate the ego. First, if it is an illusion there is nothing to eliminate. Then if we see that illusion the ego and separation feelings can expand and the ego will be an interface to the world of some kind. It' a paradox, I know. We are individual as well as one.
I don't think thinking is the approach at all. It's feeling. Go inside our bodies and look for life energy and tune into what the current of being feels like, no need to label or have thoughts about it. Just feel and be. That will calm the habitual over drive down, I'd hope. I mean, I'm saying all this but have just started to remind myself to look inside more often. I scan my body for feeling and life, even while being an ego and listening to someone talk to me.