A new and different relationship with ego (2)
We are urged to overcome the #Ego and set aside the "little self". The ego must "die" for us to achieve expanded consciousness. And the ego's resistance to being annihilated is evidence that the ego is bad and must be annihilated. This sets us on a futile quest based on a nonsequitur - an argument in which the conclusion doesn't follow logically from what preceded it. And this story about the ego has been told so often over the millennia and with such conviction, that by n
A new and different relationship with ego (1)
The first in a series of #MindfulMusings about our relationship with the ego In the loving quest to inspire us to greater and wider, more meaningful and purposeful experience, cutting edge thought leaders regularly use disparaging language to talk about the #ego and its role in our lives. We are told the ego makes false promises, that it has an agenda, that it is insatiable, has never-ending demands, that we are driven by it, that it must be disciplined, that it must die, tha
Judgement at the Buffet of Life
If you find tuna fish revolting... and you notice tuna fish salad on the buffet table... and you become outraged that someone has placed tuna on the buffet when they should "know I don't like it"... you will have missed the infinite spread of lovely things you do like on the buffet... and will have made a meal of 'not liking tuna'... #WhatNewChoicesWillYouMake, what will you resonate with and cast light upon if you notice all the wonderful things at the buffet of life? Advoca
Marcus Aurelius on relationship with our story
Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD), kept a journal that survived the millennia, now called "The Meditations". Discovering the profound in the midst of his every day concerns delights me. He reaches out to me across the millennia along one of the common threads of our humanity: "If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now." Marcus Aurelius Another way
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