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Ego - The False Self
What is ego? I'm not going to define
it or debate it, I am going to tell
you outright what ego is: ego is the
false self we build up from the day we
are born. It is a character, or a
persona if you will. It is not "real"
or "legit" or "authentic".
Let me explain...
When you are born, you are innocent,
trusting, requiring nothing more than
love, nurturing, and care. As you grow
up, your family, eventually your
school and friends and society around
you, help you to shape your
personality.
Imagine for a moment, that you grew up
completely differently than you did.
Imagine you were rich, if you grew up
poor, or that you were black if you
are white or Asian or Latino. Imagine
that your childhood was completely
different than it was in your memory,
and then ask yourself "Would my
personality be the same?"
Of course not. There would be
different factors, status-wise,
heritage and culturally, societal. You
would be a completely different person
on the "inside" if your outside
circumstances were different than they
had been for you.
So now come back to you - who you
believe yourself to be. You can
probably define yourself in a few
words or statements, such as "I am
strong" or "I am compassionate" or "I
am depressed", right? You can sum up
your personality, your persona and
character. This is because you have
finely tuned, honed and perfected your
persona as the years have gone by. You
have been told by family and friends
"you are so funny!" and so you
continue to be funny. Or you were told
in school "you have a learning
disability" so you continue to
perpetuate that disability upon
yourself. You may have been told "you
are ugly" by someone in the past, and
that has sat eating at your confidence
for years later.
All of these things, these definitions
and labels, are nothing more than
collected information of a "past you"
which is not real. The past is gone.
So should be the "you" who you
identified yourself being in that
past. Hold on to the memories, for
they are part of your whole heritage
in this lifetime, however, let
yourself be liberated of the
stereotypes, labels, and stigmas.
The Spirit - the truth of who you Are,
is God. The Universe. Oneness.
Essence. Light. Call "it" what you
will, but in the grandest scheme of
all things - you are the only One of
you there is. Beyond your mind. Beyond
your identity.
When you realize that the ego is
nothing more than a collection of
responses, insecurities, fears, and
doubts, you can then easily shed it,
watch it fall away and reveal the true
Self. The ego is a character in a play
- the true self is the Author.
It is natural to identify with your
personality, in fact I was quite
attached to mine for a very long time,
having an internal struggle of faith
based on my fear of letting my
identity go. But I eventually
realized, I am not letting go any of
the beauty I love about "my Self"...
rather I am stripping away the false
layers of ego (pain) by revealing the
truth of Self - One.
Ego will fight to remain as you.
Ego is nothing more than a tool -
created at a very early age to help
you relate and identify in your human
body - conditioned by all around you
to behave the way it now does. And
when you really grasp within your
heart that it is not "real", it will
rebel. That is a wonderful thing to
move through, because it gives you
opportunity after opportunity to
re-align your thoughts to those of
your truth, and to put ego in it's
place - which is nowhere.
Ego is not real. It is a character on
stage. Nothing more. Scripted - and
scripts can be re-written.
Let the Author be the star on the
stage
As for the ego of other people - you
can not change them. You can only
accept that they are letting the
character on stage call the shots, and
you can love them for being lost in
the illusion of the performance, and
you can see within them a reflection
of yourself.
Because we are all One outside of the
ego game.
I hope this is helpful to anyone who
is reading it.
With much Love,
Dee |
