There is no way anyone was ever okay by serving the ego.
Michael Singer
Why?
The ego's goal is quite explicably ego autonomy . From the beginning then its purpose is to be seperate, sufficient unto itself and independent of any power except its own.
ACIM text: Chapter11: V:4:5
So there is a bit of a competition going on inside you between the False You and the Real you.
Say what, crazy lady?
Well, maybe not competition but there are two "selfs" in you . One that is real and one that isn't.
Huh?
Of course, all that you can be in reality, is the real you. Many great masters teach, however, that we have created this false sense of self that sits in the way of us realizing who we really are. We call this little fella "me" but it is more easy to understand as "ego". This ego self isn't real anywhere but in the mind.
The wiser part of us, which is real, is sitting back watching us create and do what we can to protect and maintain this ego, watching us get so identified in it we come to believe that is who we are, all we are. It watches as ego tells us to get this and get that, push this or that away...to do whatever is necessary to strengthen it and protect the false self. The Wiser Self knows what the ego is doing, knows that it is looking for validation of itself from the external world; that it is trying to prove to us its reality, through other egos, and that is why we are so concerned about what other's think. The ego is trying to deceive us into believing it is all we are. It is trying to get us to believe in the unreal.
That is why the ego is insane: it teaches that you are not what you are. Chapter 7: III: 2-6
Wise Self is watching us believing everything ego has to say; watching us perceiving the life and the world through its eyes; watching us following its misguided directions, and watching us suffer greatly because of it. As we painfully scurry about in service to this mind created entity, the Wise Self/the true Self/ the Spirit/the Higher Consciousness (whatever you want to call it) sits back with its hand on its chin murmuring, "Hmm! Interesting!"
This Wiser Self tries to get our attention every now and again though it has no intention of interfering with our "free will", just to say, "Can you see what you are doing? Isn't it interesting? You could experience so much bliss and love, as you are here to do, but yet you are choosing this. You are choosing to be bound and chained by something that isn't even real. So, so interesting!" The Wise Self is not judging what we are doing, it is just observing and commenting objectively on it.
All the while ego has been very busy in us, creating this thick and what it believes to be impenetrable shield between it and Wiser Self. It doesn't want us to be able to see the Self beneath or to hear it. It wants to be able to control us completely. Its mortal enemy is truth so it doesn't want us to have any contact with it. Wiser Self, of course, the opposite of ego, is truth. Ego is quite a calculating, deceptive little entity but the Wiser Self is "wise" , right? It can see through this veil. It can see what ego is doing and what we are doing in service of it. We cannot, however, unless we are truly willing to, see through it. The wall has to come down, the veil has to be destroyed, ego has to go if we are to see and fall back into the Self beneath the self, into who we really are. And because this wall was created by mind...and truly only exists in mind...it has to be dismantled by mind.
We need to examine our minds to see the ego at work. We also need to be willing to see the witness and then to see we have a choice about which of these entities we are going to invest our conscious awareness in. We can continue to pretend and be delusional that we are these egoic little me's or we can be willing to work our way through the veil to see that we are that which lies beyond it. We can be nothing but what we are, reality, We must remove the veil, the mental clouds in order to see truth. We really cannot even begin to see truth, until we see the untruth...the lies ego is responsible for.
Reality can dawn only on an unclouded mind. It is always there to be accepted, but its acceptance depends on your willingness to have it. To know reality must involve the willingness to judge unreality for what it is. ACIM Text Chapter 10: IV:2:1-3
All is well.
A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume / Foundation For Inner Peace (2007) Text
Michael A. Singer/Temple of the Universe ( August 13, 2023) Setting Your Pole Star Higher than the Ego. https://tou.org/talks/
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