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ACIM Articles about Ego and Specialness

6. Respect me or else!!!

Monday, Sep 08, 2025 1059 words 4 mins 42 secs

What do you mean, you're not treating me exactly the way that I expect you to? How dare you! lol

"Respect" is a term that egos love to use. It's supposed to be a sign of treating someone right....

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5. Seeing people as a body produces specialness and war

Thursday, Sep 21, 2023 2566 words 11 mins 24 secs

Every time I see a body, I am tempted to believe I'm seeing a person. The person seems separate from me, they are not me at all, their body belongs exclusively to them, it's not my body, we are not...

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4. Ego specialness vs the equality of all Brothers

Tuesday, May 29, 2018 1725 words 7 mins 40 secs

Do you think you know what the ego is?

Do you think you know what separation means?

How many of you believe the idea that "ego" means "separation", and that therefore any kind of separation is ego? Or that all forms of...

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3. The ego's laws of chaos - the need for specialness

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2018 692 words 3 mins 4 secs

"The first chaotic law is that the truth is different for everyone. 2 Like all these principles, this one maintains that each is separate and has a different set of thoughts that set him off from others. 3 This principle...

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2. Ego presents only a lose-lose situation, tempting you with specialness

Wednesday, Jan 17, 2018 1079 words 4 mins 47 secs

Everything about the ego appears to present one way that you can win, and one way that you can lose. It always suggests there's some way to get away with something, to escape the effects of something. To be the...

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1. The ego's game of special relationships

Wednesday, Dec 21, 2016 683 words 3 mins 2 secs

In our special relationships, we think of a particular person as our savior, idol, bestie, or appointed partner. We adore them with very exclusive terms and special attention. Things that we reserve only for them and for no-one else.

This is...

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