Here's a blurb.. on the ego. it resonates well with me and I am writing an article on converting the ego, to igo because it's gotta go with me.
"You don't have to spend years sitting in caves; you don't have to spend years starving yourselves; you don't have to spend years denying your emotional body; you don't have to spend years trying to control your ego. Your ego is part of you, without your ego there is no driving force. How do you control your ego? With Love. And if you love yourselves then your ego will be happy.
You see, your ego needs something to do. It is not very discriminating in the energies with which it will work, or the energies through which it will experience. Your ego will be just as happy processing energies that are not of, and disassociated from, the Light, as it will be when processing the energy of Love. The difference that it means to you, as a conscious human being, is that if your ego is processing the energy of Love, well then there is no emotional trauma. Love yourselves, be compassionate to yourselves, until the transformation to Love happens, because when you become Love, you may then love others. "
"You don't have to spend years sitting in caves; you don't have to spend years starving yourselves; you don't have to spend years denying your emotional body; you don't have to spend years trying to control your ego. Your ego is part of you, without your ego there is no driving force. How do you control your ego? With Love. And if you love yourselves then your ego will be happy.
You see, your ego needs something to do. It is not very discriminating in the energies with which it will work, or the energies through which it will experience. Your ego will be just as happy processing energies that are not of, and disassociated from, the Light, as it will be when processing the energy of Love. The difference that it means to you, as a conscious human being, is that if your ego is processing the energy of Love, well then there is no emotional trauma. Love yourselves, be compassionate to yourselves, until the transformation to Love happens, because when you become Love, you may then love others. "