Some Notes on Ego

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="04c785a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Discover YOUR Inner True Self !</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Discover YOUR Inner True Self !"><U><B>Back to  I T S  Home Page</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div>                                                      </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="04dd2b03.jpg"> <div>                                                   </div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div align="center"><center> <P> </P> <bR> <TABLE width="90%" align="center" bgcolor="white" border="0"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD valign="top"> <P align="center"><B><FONT face="Lucida Sans, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">"The devil is your own personal ego."</B></P> <bR> <P align="center"><FONT size="1">from  <U><A href="http://www.innertrueself.com/its_chapter_06__on_evil_etc.htm"></FONT><FONT face="Rockwell" size="3">ITS - Inner True Self</FONT></U></A><br><FONT face="Lucida Sans, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><A HREF="its_chapter_06__on_evil_etc.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ITS Chapter 06 On Evil Etc"><U>ITS Chapter 06 On Evil Etc</U></A><br> <bR> by Daren Caldwell</P> <bR> <P><FONT size="2">I wrote that Divinely Inspired booklet 20 years ago, yet I only recently realized the full impact and scope of that statement. Life is like that.</P> <bR> <P>Spiritual healers, using metaphysical science, tell us over and over again that the appearance in our lives of evil, sin, disease, poverty, lack of any kind, anger, fear, etc. <I>is caused by our separateness from God</I>.</P> <bR> <P>We hear over and over again that God Is within us and without us. Permeating everything and containing everything. Including our minds and hearts. So what is stopping us from making contact with God?</P> <bR> <P>Our <I>individual egos</I> are stopping us. Our very own, self-exalting egos. My ego works very very hard to prevent me from contacting God. Your ego works very very hard to prevent you from contacting God. Everyone's ego works very very hard to prevent them from contacting God. The ego is a very skilful and untiring worker. (We could all take a lesson from it in that regard.) Unfortunately, your ego is bound and determined to both <EM>demoralize</EM> you and finally <EM>kill</EM> you. </P> <P>The ego is constantly introducing / inserting thoughts / ideas / feelings into our minds. It continually and continuously tries to convince us that if we follow these suggestions, we will be happy. They are always ideas of physical, emotional, or mental pleasure of some form or other. Then, when we DO follow it's lead, and the pleasure <EM>inevitably</EM> turns sour, the ego scorns us and convinces us to feel like painful stupid idiots. It then immediately starts this demoralizing cycle over again. And we get sucked in again and again and again.</P> <P>The other side of the story concerns the mechanism of karma - as you sow, so shall you reap. This is true of what we keep in our minds and feelings as well, and because we go through the pleasure/pain cycle so many times, disease and death tend to manifest in our lives. BUT when you can truly see this happening in your own life, it actually becomes funny. Humourous. Laughable. Because when the ego kills you, it kills itself. Your ego is suicidal. <FONT color=#0000cc>And when you start to admit what's going on in your mind with your ego, then you're on your way to freeing yourself of it's influence.<FONT color=#000000> </P> <P>When we come to a point in our life where we find out what we are doing to ourselves, and as we become AWARE of our ego's activities and that we actually can CHOOSE what thoughts and feelings to accept and 'grow' in our minds, then and only then are we on our way to successful fulfilled living.</P> <P>Find out more about managing your worst enemy - in fact your <I>only</I> enemy - and getting in touch with God. Contact me (click <A href= "http://www.innertrueself.com/its_contactus.htm">HERE</A>) and let's get together <B>now</B> to tackle this problem.</FONT></P> <bR> <HR width="80%" size="2"> <bR> </TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>