The ego cannot be your spiritual advisor.
Michael A. Singer
I often write about this and ask myself and others this question: "Who is asking this of you: Spirit or ego?" Before you give into an inclination to act, speak or simply plan in your head...ask yourself who is doing the asking. Is it your "little me", your ego mind, your concept of a personal self wanting you to use this body for something or the deeper I, the intellectual mind, and this that exists beneath the personal mind you created?
Singer reminds us in the below linked podcast that there is a big difference between the personal mind and the intellectual mind, between what you, as an idea of "me, my and mine", wants and what God wants.
The personal mind, yet to be purified, is clouded with the root of all suffering: preference. The intellectual mind is pure...offering an open door for the bodies we are in to express it through our inspiration and creativity. When we operate from it we are taken to a higher place of beauty, joy, love. We recognize our Oneness in everything and we accept and embrace what is. There is nothing we have to "do". When we operate from ego mind we are constantly grasping or pushing away...struggling to make the world suit our egos. Following ego's mixed up directions as to what we should do in order to be okay to our own peril. We are anxious, stressed, unhappy opening and closing our hearts to the beauty of Life. We suffer!
So why do we have a personal mind, an ego mind?
We created it. We, as a piece of consciousness, decided to look down at our bodies and everything going on within them . We got so focused on them we became addicted. This addicted focus led to the creation of an ego mind whose purpose was to protect this thing we were focusing on. ..making it feel okay by selecting and deciding what things "out here" would keep it safe and what things wouldn't. It takes so much energy, effort, focus to make the "me" okay. We got so lost in doing that we forgot that we weren't this thing we were in...simply borrowing it for the time being so God, consciousness could experience itself through it. We forgot who we were and eventually the veil of ego mind became so thick we couldn't see through it. We became, in our minds only, the "me". We then make most of our choices based on what ego says.It often drowns out the higher voice within us.
Hmm! We focus on ego and its neediness...99% of our thoughts are related to this "Me, my, and mine". We focus on those thoughts and obey them to our own peril. It is an addiction. Ego is an addiction. To stop suffering we need to get through the veil of ego mind to who we really are.
Ego cannot guide us to true lasting peace and happiness. It can only make us crazy! If the choices we make serve the ego, we are going to suffer.
We remove ego's addictive hold over us by becoming aware of it as the problem. Then we watch our preferences and observe how they do not serve us. We relax into Life, accepting it for what it is without the need to make it different. We seek to go deeper beyond preference, beyond the ego to who we really are. We make our choices from there. If it doesn't serve the ego, what we do will serve the spirit, the true Self. And that is the way to true peace, happiness and Love.
All is well.
Michael A, Singer/ Temple of the Universe ( July 13, 2023) Growing Through the Layers of Mind. https://tou.org/talks/
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