Ideally, a truly healthy ego revolves around a Higher Power. For some of us, this is God as we know Him; others rely on the Buddha or Allah or even their most trusted friends.
Egocentricity however operates under the delusion that the world revolves around me. It tries ot get us to believe that we don't need help to recover from addiction.
Yet, where is this "me" when the chips are down? When self-will (ego) tells us we can do fine on our own, relapse might occur.
Out of ignorance, we create fabrications rather than simply face the simple truth that the biggest social fabrication is the ego.
For the ego does not exist, except in the mind.
Of the mind, let us be mindful of the folly of egocentricity. For what is "I", "me", and "mine" but social conventions?
Let go and let God...
1 comment:
Never stop defeating the ego i.e. learning humility.
All it takes is thinking, "There but for the grace of God go I."
Such a social fabrication as the ego does not exist except when we agree by consensus that it does.
However, it is the reification of the ego -- treating it as though it is a higher power -- which is the ruin of even the best of us.
Just don't sweat the small stuff!
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