1/ Some loose thoughts on ego, fear and losers.
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12/ The act of confronting fear is a conscious act of humility and awareness more than it is an act of courage.
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13/ In confronting fear there is the acknowledgment of it, the acceptance of your current level, and the possibility for transcendence.
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14/ The ego's way is to dismiss fear to serve your self-image, willfully blinding you to the limitations of your knowledge, ability & skill.
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15/ The ego's way is to "protect" you by isolating you in a room where the mirror only shows you how you'd like to be, never how you are.
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16/ The ego's way is to feed you a self-image to make you feel good about yourself while halting all possibilities of true development.
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17/ The ego acts as your friend as long as you go along with it; but it only exists in the shadows. Take it in the real world & it vanishes.
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18/ The ego lives in fear of being discovered. It vanishes when confronted by reality because it was never really there in the first place.
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19/ Reality knows nothing of our self-image. The only thing it knows is cause and effect. Reality is the true mirror; the ego the false one.
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20/ Fear is the litmus test of life. Through encountering fear only are we truly shaped and defined. The ego is nothing but fear of fear.
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21/ Fear is not the enemy, fear is the way to life. Protecting the fear of fear is walking towards death. Transcend it or be consumed by it.
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22/ You either choose to do what you fear and are a true winner, or you choose fear of fear and literally lose everything: become a "loser".
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23/ The paradox of the ego is that it both exists, and doesn't. All depends on your way of being. Whatever you do, do not underestimate it.
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24/ You need remember only this: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
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25/ One last thing: The ego is usually found hiding in two places (1) What you avoid (2) What your strongest attributes are.
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26/ The ego will deflate (1) and inflate (2). Watch out for it. You will have to slay that dragon many times over.
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28/ For more on ego I strongly recommend all of Aesop's fables, particularly "The Fox and the Grapes" which partly inspired these thoughts.
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Yup like the old quote "ain't nothin to fear but fear itself"
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Can you give example of "fear of fear"? And how ego is related to strongest attributes ?
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