Yes, ultimately we don't need our egos OR OUR BODIES. However, as long as we are in our bodies, we need the ego. Gary Zukav calls the ego our "earth guide". St. Francis said, "it is in dying to our 'self' (ego) that we are born to eternal Life." To me, that means dying to our bodies also, and that is meaning we are completely in Spirit! And that is ONEDAFULL!
Patricia Arnold: I can't imagine how boring it would be for the Divine to simply hang out, doing nothing. Why not put on billions of costumes and stage millions of dramas and comedies. Sure, they're not real. But who cares, when you have all eternity to just BE?
Yes, as Shakespeare said, "the whole world is a stage and we are merely actors on it."
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. Will Shakespeare
Patricia Arnold: Ah, yes, Ra (Ron's favorite twin - sometimes)! That quote opens my book, "EARTH Is the MOTHER of All Drama Queens"--a fitting title, given to me by Spirit.
Unity Walker: And as we all know, the "play" is nothing but a script with sets and costumes and MASKS (one side dark, one side light, polar opposites) that cover who we really are. The play is ego strutting and calling itself savior. The entire Shakespea...re quotation about the world being a stage is about how we keep recycling through finite matter and its costumes....He was an awakened, illumined soul who knew the falsity of the world and used his own plays to show us the futility of life on ego's stage. He was not describing reality, but rather was aptly describing illusion and its inauthentic role-playing.Yoshara like this..Unity Walker: To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
...No more; and by a sleep to say we end
*The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd.* To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
*For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have SHUFFLED OFF this MORTAL COIL.*
Degree (amount or unbalanced)of ego important - Example of egotistical vs. humble: Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
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