There is no 'just ego'
our cultural resistance to any kind of “stripping away of the self” leaves us unprepared for the suffering and trauma that life inevitably deals out to all of us. Even
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
Maybe that's what this essay is really about: the journey from "What will this say about me?" to "What does this want to become?" From "How can I prove I'm good enough?" to "How can I be present enough to do justice to this moment, this challenge, this opportunity to engage with something larger than my own small anxieties?"
stepfanie tyler • thoughts on ego involvement and the weight of being
