Ego Speaks For (and to) Itself

        All meaning and significance granted to the person’s life, even spiritual meaning and significance, is ego, period. Spirit merely coexists with a person acting in a world and makes no judgment on this, nor does it grant it meaning and significance because It knows this is not real. It is totally possible for the person to operate in the world without ego because ego is not the source of the person and does not live the person. The person is a neutral expression of consciousness. What ego does is tell a story about the person and their actions, and that story is to validate itself, to make ego seem to be an alternate reality to Reality (God). It doesn’t seem like the story is about ego, but rather about what is appearing, because ego projects the story to hide itself behind what is appearing.

An analogy: You are sitting in a garden and there are birds and insects flying and buzzing around and the wind is blowing about the trees and bushes. You are simply coexisting with these expressions of nature, watching and listening to them with no thoughts about them. But there is someone else with you, a storyteller, telling an elaborate story about the movement and sounds of the birds and insects, trees and bushes. Are those stories really about the movement and sounds of what is appearing or about the storyteller? The birds and insects, trees and bushes are not telling a story, so the story must be the storyteller’s own. And why is the storyteller doing this, but to assert itself as the determiner of meaning, the arbiter of reality—to make itself seem to be God, to make itself seem to be real.

You cannot stop ego from telling its stories or from asserting its reality. It is what it is and will do what it is meant to do. And, of course, there is a lot of energy behind ego as it asserts its reality, much more than someone merely telling a story about themselves. It is a powerful experience that dominates consciousness when it is active. But neither you nor consciousness begin and end with ego, so you can let its thoughts and feelings pass. Its stories for the person, the meaning and significance it grants any of it, are for itself, not for you.

Spirit is the other part of consciousness. As you practice letting ego pass, you may find the space that is neutral consciousness and become aware of your Self quietly coexisting with it. Just as ego sees only ego, Spirit sees only Spirit, and consciousness can register this, too. 

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