EGO... Such a little word that can do so much damage in your life. It can make us compete rather than co-operate, criticize and judge others, cling to the past, be manipulative. It makes us more concerned with outward appearances and worldly success. Makes us seek approval, attention, and admiration from places maybe we shouldn't. It makes us strive to be perfect and unable to live in the present moment.
Ego is sometimes hard to describe because it isn't made up of just one specific thing. It is made up of different beliefs that we acquire over our life time. Ego is usually associated with arrogance, but there are actually positive and negative sides to ego. A person can be completely confident in their skill, ability, self-acceptance, without letting it "go to their head" and interactions with other people. Ego is not love, it is in fact separation from everything we do love. When we let ego take over our lives and relationships we are allowing it to limit us. It limits our words and our emotions.
"Where God is ego cannot be."-God a story of revelation by Deepak Chopra
How can we believe that we can have ego and still be in the place that God wants us to be? Is it time for you to "break up" with your ego?
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