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Originally Posted by Rockchick26  I'm in the process of learning about the ego right now. I was reading books saying you should get rid of it as much as you can. I don't really see the point in having an ego,if it only WANTS things,and things are not what creates happiness. Even by wanting to help others to become better people,if that gives meaning to your life,you depend on others being worse off than you are.
Even by wanting to "make it" in life,to achieve success in a certain field,that is only meaningful to you as long as there are many more who havent made it. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions",as they say. And the ego is what drives you there. |
I getcha
I been wanting to "save the world" recently but it actually made me less happy because it was ego-based. Children have a better idea: the good existence isn't anywhere else, it's here and now, it's what you can see.. you don't need anything that's out of your reach!
I'm reading "the power of now" just now, it's really turning my world over. It sort of puts across the ego as a parasite whose purpose is survival and for that it needs you to be incomplete. And it seems to make perfect sense to me. I'm a little perplexed as to why this thing should exist, but it just rings true.
I don't give myself an identity anymore. Why should I put conditions on my self-acceptance? I'm everything and nothing. I just
am.