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Meme Credit: Paula Lyons Written By: Puck Arks of TFD Control Your Ego Y our Ego has wants, your Soul has needs. You may not get what you want but you will definitely get what you need for your healing, growth and evolvement. Y our Ego wants create attachments to things that you want to make you feel better about yourself. Your wants you are attached to will manipulate and control your inner sense of worth and happiness. If you receive your wants you are attached to those wants being received, and remaining, to feel worthy and happy. If you don’t receive these wants or they do not remain or sustain themselves, you feel unworthy and not happy.  A ttachment creates conditional acceptance and determines your fluctuating inner self worth attitudes. Being attached to something creates dependency. You act like a puppet on a string being manipulated and controlled in conditional acceptance and conditional love. T he converse, being detached, comes fro...

Written By: Puck Arks of TFD    ACTivism: Ego   T oday vast amounts of information are easy to obtain. Choice is endemic. If we are interested in meditation we can access the teachings of thousands of years in a few short seconds and soon be reading hundreds of pages of the sayings of ancient masters. It’s a wonderful thing to have such ready access to virtually all the wisdom traditions in the world. H owever, the ego self often uses information gathered from outside sources to reinforce its own beliefs. In our practice we must let go of this type of accumulated knowledge. We acknowledge its value, but realize that it limits our life experience in the same way blinders limit the view of a horse pulling a carriage. We don’t want to turn our spirituality into a basic reinforcement of our own delusions. T he problem, of course, is that it is comfortable and easy to search for knowledge on our computer, but difficult to sit for many hours dealing...