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MASS CONFUSION INSIDE YOUR HEAD “the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.” The ego’s goal is to persuade us to believe things that are patently false, untrue, to create a distorted reality so that it can protect us. To bend and warp what we think we know and believe is its way of keeping us where it wants us – unsure, on edge, enmeshed in self-doubt. Men will exaggerate thousands of things. Collectively we misremember most events that we experience as if the odds were always in our favor. We reconfigure and reconstruct and hyperbolically color and edit and embellish.  Everyone loves a good story. That does mean we live a good one. Nostalgia takes us back and fills us with a feeling of how - perhaps we wished we felt. In actuality, the truth is hidden in a reality that we may not want to process or accept. Hindsight is 20/20 through rose-colored spectacles but there are shades of grey that we don’t see because we may not be able to come to terms w...

"This is something basic to be understood - the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity - only then can you dissolve it. A weak ego cannot be dissolved. And this becomes a problem." ~ Rajneesh The ego helped us stay alive as we wandered around the Savannah before we realized we didn’t have to be eaten by lions, tigers, and bears. We could make weapons and protect ourselves. Then tools to plant and harvest. It was necessary so that we could survive. It was crucial for our evolution. If not we would not be here today.  It is not who we are. It is there to help. But like any aspect of the whole, it must be healthy. A healthy ego looks out for us, is full of prospects and it wants to lead the way, to help, but like any determining factor real or imagined, it gets in our way. A healthy ego a well-trained ego well-mastered ego will be our lookout and know its place. But yet it will stop, block and deter when it doubts us. It sta...