One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.
The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.
At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were.
The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.
Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.
As I've gone into soul and soul-land, and I connect with my soul and my ego, and my life is colored by my soul - people can identify from their ego, which is who they thought they are. The soul, which is who they really are, if they choose that transfer to the soul, then you live in an ocean of love.
The Ego ages... the Soul evolves... and to the Awareness, nothing happened!
As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You're not thinking about loving; you're just being love, radiating like the sun.
Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.
I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.
Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.
When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul.
Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.
We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.