Spirituality

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 w

The ego is your death, and the death of the ego is the beginning of your real life. Real life is creativity.

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.

Under those conditions, the ego is primarily concerned with predicting every outcome of every situation, because it is overfocused on the outer world and feels completely separated from the 99.99999 percent of reality. In fact, the more we define reality through our senses, the more this reality becomes our law.

The ego is like an overprotective mother in the extreme. Just as this hypervigilant mother will not let her child explore and have fun playing on the jungle gym for fear of getting hurt, your ego will not let you explore and have fun with life because of the perceived danger.