EGO AND LOVE
“You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
-- Buckminster Fuller
How many times though, do we hang onto outdated concepts, worn out methodology, tried-and-failed solutions, and over-rated habits that once served our survival or were habitual in response to our experiences but now block at least to some extent our clear view of and openness to the flow of God's grace?
Why do we do that?
Because we don't yet know any better.
Because we are afraid to try something new.
Because the "old way" is a comfort zone even if it's dysfunctional.
We don't like to dismiss our past or disengage from it because it helps represent who we think ourselves to be. Ego is made up of these past experiences and our interpretation of them and an idea of ourselves that we have because of them. That usually means we sense ourselves as lacking in many areas. This idea of lack or low self esteem or ignorance of the love that we are and that we have available to us, causes us to allow ego to inflate to give us a false sense of being okay. So we try to get a feeling of being loved or okay from the outside in rather from the inside out.
To dismiss or let go of our past or our sense of self is to pronounce a death sentence for the ego. The ego likes to replay or even repeat our past dramas so it can play victim to solicit attention and pity which pumps it up. This is ego’s way of duping us. It likes to fool us so that we don’t move towards a fuller revelation of God within. In the awareness of God, ego begins to die. We don’t have to make effort. We just have to desire and surrender to the process. As ego fades into the background what is left of “us” is under the dominion of our Source. We have to function in this world, so some sense of our self or individuality is left but it is more influenced or directed by God’s will than ego. And God’s will is love. And love requires the surrender to what is. It requires our willingness to let go of our sense of what ought to be. This doesn’t mean we don’t have preferences or desires but we must be willing to give these up to God’s better judgment and to desire the higher good for all which, in my opinion, is love. Love and then do what you will for Love will direct your choices.
Job surrendered to the will of God and everything was given back to him. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his beloved son if God required that and God gave him back his son. When we give up ego, when we surrender to God, God gives us His Son more fully. That is, the Christ or Spirit within that transforms us. This is our “salvation”.
-- Buckminster Fuller
How many times though, do we hang onto outdated concepts, worn out methodology, tried-and-failed solutions, and over-rated habits that once served our survival or were habitual in response to our experiences but now block at least to some extent our clear view of and openness to the flow of God's grace?
Why do we do that?
Because we don't yet know any better.
Because we are afraid to try something new.
Because the "old way" is a comfort zone even if it's dysfunctional.
We don't like to dismiss our past or disengage from it because it helps represent who we think ourselves to be. Ego is made up of these past experiences and our interpretation of them and an idea of ourselves that we have because of them. That usually means we sense ourselves as lacking in many areas. This idea of lack or low self esteem or ignorance of the love that we are and that we have available to us, causes us to allow ego to inflate to give us a false sense of being okay. So we try to get a feeling of being loved or okay from the outside in rather from the inside out.
To dismiss or let go of our past or our sense of self is to pronounce a death sentence for the ego. The ego likes to replay or even repeat our past dramas so it can play victim to solicit attention and pity which pumps it up. This is ego’s way of duping us. It likes to fool us so that we don’t move towards a fuller revelation of God within. In the awareness of God, ego begins to die. We don’t have to make effort. We just have to desire and surrender to the process. As ego fades into the background what is left of “us” is under the dominion of our Source. We have to function in this world, so some sense of our self or individuality is left but it is more influenced or directed by God’s will than ego. And God’s will is love. And love requires the surrender to what is. It requires our willingness to let go of our sense of what ought to be. This doesn’t mean we don’t have preferences or desires but we must be willing to give these up to God’s better judgment and to desire the higher good for all which, in my opinion, is love. Love and then do what you will for Love will direct your choices.
Job surrendered to the will of God and everything was given back to him. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his beloved son if God required that and God gave him back his son. When we give up ego, when we surrender to God, God gives us His Son more fully. That is, the Christ or Spirit within that transforms us. This is our “salvation”.
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