In the ego's physical world, the form and the function of something are fixed.
You can use a pair of scissors to cut paper, but you can't use a pair of scissors to alleviate your hunger. You can use a screwdriver...
Our opinions don't mean anything at all. They are absolutely worthless. It doesn't matter what your truth is or what my truth is or what anyone's truth is. It's all bullshit. An opinion is the delusional voice of the ego.
In...
In this physical world, we have made ourselves extremely "little" and limited. We have implemented so much separation in our collective mind that most people barely have any sense of being connected to the minds of others.
It seems completely normal...
When you are in the world and the world seems real, and you feel like life is meaningless and empty, instead of seeking truly within you tend to seek without.
The ego has asserted that the absence of meaning is real,...
In the physical world, events seem to happen where physical objects and bodies are involved. Coupled with the illusion that some objects cause effects on other objects, it seems as though we live in a world where some thing or...
Your main problem is one of identity. You've attempted to change your identity from Christ, to take on a new identity as an ego.
Your sense of your "Self" has become associated with, attached to, and confused with, an alternative model...
If you are caught up in an emotional interaction with someone, upset by them or about them or struggling to forgive them, trying doing a forgiveness where you sever the connection of cause and effect between you.
By that I mean,...
With regards to your ego and the ego of your brother, everything about it is self inflicted and separate. What is in your ego is not in your brother's ego. They are two separate, private worlds. They do not connect...
Your relationships can turn from hate to holiness, if you will recognize that you have a common enemy.
Your relationship is not just you and the other person.
Your relationship is you, the other person, and the ego.
The two of you may...
In every conflict, it is not one side or another who is right or wins.
They are BOTH losers.
The only one winning is the ego.
If you knew that the ego has a secret agenda to pit you against others and...
The big secret behind the ego's illusions, is that the ego is entirely a mode of SELF-attack. And this exactly ties into the revelation that "the secret to salvation is that you are but doing this to yourself."
The ego mind...
While you are believing that your ego is your real self, and as you attempt to do something about this to wake up spiritually, you're going to be pulling that ego self along for the ride.
It does not want to...
There is a pivotal moment when you let go of the ego's hand and decide to take the hand of Christ.
This can and will happen in many scenarios and many times over. And it's going to happen in your "real...
When the ego attacks, it does not see you for who you really are.
Its belief in sin and guilt heavily skews its perception. It perceives in you a sinful guilty person, which isn't really in you.
It then addresses that sinful...
The ego only attacks itself. When it targets a person, and it refers to some kind of identity that is the recipient of its attack, that identity is always comprised of egoic properties.
When it says "you are....", it's referring...
To be a miracle worker who does their own will, is a spiritual ego. Becoming miraculous while maintaining the ego is a good disguise for pretending to be a miracle worker while blocking God!
It becomes apparent that miracles are only...
You will continue to protect, defend, empower, give energy to, support, believe in, have faith in, trust, consider worthwhile, see innocence in, be willing to sacrifice for, side with, cooperate with, and generally try to become one with THE EGO...
The ego can be likened to a train which is hurtling towards death. You don't necessarily need to be on the train.
But sometimes you hop on the train, with a one-way ticket.
Once you're on it, automatically you will begin hurtling...
You made the ego as a device for separating from God. Symbolically, the body is the ego - the hero of the dream. The ego is a machine designed to operate in separation, opposition, and delusion, believing that illusions are...
The ego's version of raising the dead is to give reality/life to things which are not REALLY life.
It gives reality to illusions in an attempt to make them seem to live, as though they are animated and have a will...