Damien Echols (@damienechols)
The ego is constantly in flux. Once you’re onto it—once you’ve discovered it in one aspect of your being—it will disappear, only to reappear somewhere else. It is very cunning, very subtle. In fact, as I see it, the ego’s illusion is one of the most impressive forces in all of nature.
Adyashanti • The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
The ego isn’t something to get rid of, because in actuality it doesn’t exist. It’s simply a mortal hallucination that we’ve all bought into. It is the absence of love, the same way darkness is the absence of light. When we turn on light, darkness disappears; and when we turn on love, the ego disappears. Whatever we devote to truth will be able to
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Consciousness has no idea of “I,” of ego. It has no idea of one’s separation from existence. It does not know any barrier. It knows no boundaries—it is one with existence, it is in a deep at-onement. There is no conflict between the individual and the whole. One is simply flowing into the whole, and the whole is flowing into one. It is like
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