One of the biggest problems that humanity faces
is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one
is right or wrong and identifying what one's
strengths and weaknesses.
Your
ego can become an obstacle to your
work. If you start believing in your
greatness, it is the death of your
creativity.-Marina
Abramovic |
Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, it is to our
advantage to turn our glance inward, and take
the measure of our greatest challenge: the self,
the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.
Sometimes it is very hard to say, what is good
or bad. So often what seems so good turns out to
make a miserable experience; what seems bad
turns into a greatest teacher, and a great
opportunity we have been searching for.
Doors open to better ways of being or an
opportunity that never would have come any other
way. For instance, bad stomach cramps and a
morning in the bathroom after an anniversary
dinner the night before, gone bad, did, in fact,
keep one business man from making it into work
exactly where the first plane hit on 9/11. For
him what’s bad certainly was good.
A "bad" experience can force one to let go of
illusions, falsehoods and wrong concepts that
will not serve one’s life experience. It can
cause one to become more real, more humble, more
compassionate and make us understand clearly.
A bad experience, when viewed from the ego which
is merely the mind’s false sense of the self,
can keep one frozen in time, bitter, angry and
consumed with changing the unchangeable past.
Avoid having your ego so close to
your position that when your
position falls, your ego goes with
it.-Colin Powell |
Our ego is our unconscious and running mind that
views itself as unique and separate from
everything and everyone else. It makes us view
everyone and everything as a potential threat to
us and we can only preserve our ego with
control, power, greed and attack.
Ego runs and ruins families and organizations.
All conflicts are battle of egos, and the need
to be right. When we give up the need to be
right and focus to our goal, we will arrive at a
state few attain to.
When two or more egos come together, drama of
some kind or another ensues. But even if we live
totally alone, we still create our own drama.
When we feel sorry for ourselves, that’s drama.
When we feel guilty or anxious, that’s drama.
When we let the past or future obscure the
present, we are creating the stuff of which
drama is made. Whenever we are not honoring the
present moment by allowing it to be, we are
creating drama.
Most people are in love with their particular
life drama. Their story is their particular life
drama. When we live with complete acceptance of
what is, that is the end of all drama in our
lives. The ultimate aim of managing our ego is
not to see something, but to be something.
By
Tim Pedrosa
I believe that we are at a very low
level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as
human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own
ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering
that message.-Madonna Ciccone |
Tim
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