| Our thoughts have a way of making every little thing | | | | others, it becomes insanely apparent. Almost like it's |
| about us. | | | | dancing in front of you and you'll wonder how you |
| Someone was rude to me so I was being mistreated | | | | never noticed it before. |
| or someone cut me off...How dare they cut ME off! | | | | Obviously I and me and mine has to be used |
| The next time someone is rude to you or tries to start | | | | sometimes in the right context but it's the meaning |
| a fight with you listen to their words. I'll bet money that | | | | behind it that counts. |
| they use the words I, me, mine, myself and my more | | | | I would have to advocate not teaching possessions to |
| than any other words in the human language. | | | | be all about the person when children are small. When |
| If you think about it pretty much every bad feeling | | | | people do this I see their ego coming through. I never |
| stems from those words. If we assumed that the | | | | try to equate something with my personality or with |
| reason the person was being rude to us was because | | | | theirs when I'm around kids. |
| of them and not me then we would realize that it's | | | | In the simplest of term lets say your kid knows his |
| their problem not my problem. You see what I am | | | | name is Johnny and he associates Johnny as himself. |
| saying? | | | | It defines him, it's who he is. But now you give him |
| I is a misperception of who you are. You are not I. You | | | | things and say that it's Johnny's toy or Johnny's book |
| are Bob or Susan or Linda. You are not I or me or | | | | and he now identifies with that object as my book and |
| myself. I is your ego speaking not you. | | | | my toy. He puts attachment to it as if it's part of |
| Alberta Einstein, who I am realizing to be more brilliant | | | | himself. This is why when you take it away from him it |
| with everything I learn about him, referred to the ego | | | | causes him serious pain . Not because the toy has |
| as "an optical illusion of consciousness" That illusion of | | | | serious value to him but because of the thought of |
| self can become the basis for all future interpretations, | | | | 'mine'. |
| or really misinterpretations of reality, all thought | | | | This continues in our life and we attach many things |
| processes, interactions, and relationships. | | | | that are supposed to define us. Our weight, our gender, |
| The sense of I can only survive if you keep mistaking it | | | | our likes and dislikes, our opinions, and everything else |
| for reality. Like Eckhart Tolle wrote "In the seeing of | | | | that we think makes us who we are. But that's not |
| who you are not, the reality of who you are emerges | | | | who we are. We are Johnny. A loving, giving, |
| by itself." | | | | compassionate and understanding soul that started in |
| People who become so lost in their ego and think | | | | this world with no ego but was taught ego throughout |
| everything happens to them or because of them | | | | our life. |
| cannot be aware of their ego. Anyhow who is aware | | | | When I first started learning about the ego and how it's |
| of their ego speaking instead of them would either | | | | not really reality I remember thinking about all those |
| correct themselves or would admit it at some point. | | | | times that I had just been sitting around not thinking |
| Meaning that if your co-worker is always complaining | | | | about anything but just being aware and observing |
| about how she never gets a break and she get's | | | | what was going on around me. I would get the |
| mistreated by her boss and is always in a state of the | | | | weirdest feeling in the pit of my stomach and I would |
| world against her, but never says maybe it's not all | | | | attach it to the thought that I was not in reality, I was in |
| their fault or maybe they are having a bad day, then | | | | a dream like state. But now, looking back at it I see |
| she can't see that she's actually living in a world that's | | | | that in those moments I was out of my ego. I was in |
| not real. | | | | reality. I wasn't thinking about how they were affecting |
| I was thinking of this the other day when I was saying | | | | me or what I should be doing or what other people |
| how much someone was affecting me negatively. | | | | were thinking about me...I was just sitting there and |
| Then I realized that they weren't affecting me. I was. I | | | | taking it all in. Totally cool. |
| was taking it personally and making it all about me and | | | | If you haven't read A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle than |
| how miserable it was making me but in reality what | | | | you may want to do that. He makes it easy to |
| that person does can not affect me unless I take it | | | | understand the ego and how to look for your real inner |
| personally or unless it affects me physically. | | | | purpose, not your egos purpose. |
| Once you start listening for the ego, in yourself and in | | | | |