Time to Fight Back Against Ego

Come on, people! It’s time for humanity to start winning some rounds against the ego. Too long has the ego been winning the battle for human minds, human hearts, human wills. Slowly, progressively, ego has eroded humanity’s spiritual freedom.

The ego plays dirty, working to weaken the individuals’ will:

by encouraging beliefs of weakness and futility that dissuade people from even trying;

by sapping the strength from constructive actions, making us pull our punches and get disappointing results;

by undermining resolve with indecision and discouragement, so that good trends soon dissipate and disappear;

by misinterpreting the events of life, promoting wrong and unhelpful lessons;

by injecting self-doubt and fanning distrust of others;

by twisting spiritual truths to make them support isolation, self-direction, self-reliance, self-aggrandizement — and thus lose much of their salvatory power.

It’s time for us to look at the big picture of our lives, our culture, our planet, our history, our aspirations, and see something wrong in that picture. There is far too little real fulfillment. There is far too little true, consistent love. There is far too little lasting peace. There is far too little deep understanding. There is far too little personal caring. There is far too little cooperation with God. This is not okay with the human heart. Only a person who has been numbed by convictions of powerlessness and distracted by endless consolations would deny that.

Friends, we must take back our wills. We must make good, loving, uplifting choices. We must be consistent. We must join hands and affirm each other’s strength. Please! We can do it, if we will.