{"id":10090,"date":"2015-06-17T10:53:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T05:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=10090"},"modified":"2021-01-30T12:02:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T06:32:18","slug":"ego-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2015\/06\/17\/ego-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Ego message"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been watching myself for a while now. I’ve not been really good at it, and my desire to\u00a0move up to observing seems a laugh now, but it’s a work in progress. A recent experience gave me quite a lot of perspective on this.\u00a0My words, humour and actions, as perceived by others, were far away from my intent. Words and humour. Somewhere in my passage through life, I picked up this armour, a defense mechanism so that I wouldn’t have to become invisible<\/a>.\u00a0In fact, the experience gave me a\u00a0sense of deja vu<\/a>, and made me think of self perception.<\/p>\n

I recently read\u00a0a fantastic post on Ribbonfarm titled ‘Ritual & the consciousness<\/a>‘ that, among other things, explores the self and the ‘watcher at the gates of the mind’. Not quite along the lines in the post, but I think I have two watchers – one that represents others’ perception of me and another that represents self perception. The universe in a larger context might be indifferent, but in many environments, I realise, it is dangerous to ignore the first. I also realise that the second is, though difficult, where I can make a serious attempt to shake free.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The self might after all be an illusion, but\u00a0\u201cYou first need to have an ego in order to be aware that it doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d\u00a0(via this wonderful Brain Pickings post<\/a>) I think that not only have I been made painfully aware of my ego, but I now take every opportunity to acknowledge it. The next step is to let go of my armour, maybe I picked it up to protect my ego, my perception of self.<\/p>\n

\"Lee\"<\/p>\n

P.S. Watch Jim Carrey <\/a>in a different avataar, giving superb life lessons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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