Love Ego - It has a Job to Do!

Love your ego for what it is and for the great job it has done to keep you alive and bring to this point. Don't fight it; embrace it and love it. Teach it that your spirit is in command and that it must back down when instructed by the guidance from God. Utilize checks and balances to keep it in its place. It has a job to do; your survival. When you deny that, it will retaliate at the most inappropriate moment to teach you a lesson. Love it for what it's worth. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

Buffy Per Sempre: I like this a lot Dean. Ego has kinda been given a bad rap - since we all have one. I've tried everything to deal with my ego and LOVE works best. ღ
Ron Alexander: Thanks Dr. Dean, it is better to have a healthy balanced ego than to have a weak one (feeling less than, guilt, shame, fear, etc.) and to be aware of our "earth guide" (Gary Zukav) is the key!

.Manoj Kumar ‎:-). thanks dean. it is only with ego that egoless state can manifest. kind regards.
Pankaj Saini: Lovely sharing...When Love comes in beween :) God is there in Between....thanks Dean for sharing....
Carlos Ortas: Embrace everything with Love, even ego. Then it feels protected, safe, and expands...until it is...Love. ♥
Ron Alexander: Anything or anyone we consider separate, including our ego or manmade artifacts, is placing us squarely in duality. There is no evil, satan or hell, unless manmade by dualistic thinking. "God did not make any junk." and God (Love) is omniscient, omnipresent &nd omnipotent. Thanks for the enlightening dialogue Richard & Rita!
► Reply by Rita O'Gorman 10 hours ago
Ron, yes and yes...and here is the contradiction I was brought up with. That while God was omnipresent, it was possible for him to not be within me, or that he might leave me, or that I could lose him. Where could he go? Where is this place that he is not? And, this teaching of the separation from God is anti-Christ in as much as it opposite unity. When I consider how all encompassing love is, I can feel his embrace and I have to shed some tears of joy.

I have a friend who is going through a hell all her own. Her family is being torn apart, she is laden with guilt and battling breast cancer. She ask me if I thought she had given up on God. I told her, with all confidence, that God has not given her up and wasn't leaving her. He has no where to go cause there is nothing outside of him.
The thing is, we must avoid attachments if we are to fully avoid duality. Attachments come when we do something for an anticipated future benefit, rather than for its own sake. Why? Because we're attached to the outcome and fruits of our labor (which is karmic) instead of remaining focused on what we are doing in the present moment (where Paradise lies, hidden from all but the innocent and pure). Now, I'm not saying that everything we do or make in ordinary reality is done for future benefit, but the main thing that separates the man-made and natural worlds is that so many of our activities in civilization focus on future benefits - and even worse, punishment and guilt over past deeds - whereas in Nature (which is Divine creation), our true being and spirit can manifest, enabling us to transcend the realm of dependency and karma, because we don't need anything beyond what already exists.
Ron Alexander:"The thing is, we must avoid attachments if we are to fully avoid duality." Good point Richard!
Excellent in fact, how do we avoid "attachments" ? The only way I can think of is doing alot of meditation and observing the negative (& positive) attachments and keeping the middle road.
Not fighting them or trying to transform the negative to the positive - just being aware and watching them pass. Nothing is permanent, everything passes, and knowing that all is illusion can we heal from the feeling of separateness that is the basis of all of our troubles. Be as One! Meditate and live in aware Mindfulness! Thanks for the dialogue, dear Richard!


Gary Zukav quotes:


“Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.”
― Gary Zukav
“Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.”
― Gary Zukav “Reality is what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is what we believe.
What we believe is based upon our perceptions.
What we perceive depends upon what we look for.
What we look for depends upon what we think.
What we think depends upon what we perceive.
What we perceive determines what we believe.
What we believe determines what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is our reality.”
― Gary Zukav, Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
“If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you.”
― Gary Zukav
“For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.”
― Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul
“Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.”
― Gary Zukav
“Trust allows you to give. Giving is abundant. As you give so it shall be given to you. If you give with judgment, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in your life - judgment, limitation, and stinginess.”
― Gary Zukav
“An authentically powered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love.”
― Gary Zukav “When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing.”
“Spiritual Partnership
... The new female and the new male
are partners on a journey of spiritual growth.
They want to make the journey.
Their love and trust keep them together.
Their intuition guides them. They consult with each other.
They are friends. They laugh a lot. They are equals.

That is what a spiritual partnership is:
a partnership between equals
for the purpose of spiritual growth.”
― Gary Zukav, Soul Stories “Eventually, you will come to understand
that love heals everything,
and love is all there is.

The journey may take many lifetimes,
but you will complete it.
It is impossible not to complete it.
It is not a question of if but of when.

Every situation you create
serves this purpose.

Every experience you encounter
serves this purpose.”
― Gary Zukav “What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.”
― Gary Zukav
“There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.”
― Gary Zukav “Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. ”
― Gary Zukav
“When you have an emotional reaction to what you see, you are judging. That is your signal that you have an issue inside of yourself - with yourself - not with the other person. If you react to evil, look inside yourself for the very thing that so agitates you, and you will find it. If it were not there, you will simply discern, act appropriately, and move on.”
― Gary Zukav, Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart
“The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.”
― Gary Zukav