...they all look like ants from up here...LOL Seriously, I developed a saying about such a phenomenon, when I first noticed it working for the TM Movement:
"Unbounded awareness is great, but enough's enough!!" In other words, at any stage of development, the ego wants to call it mine. However, the momentum for this reflex action is deep seated. The ego is a pretty amazing tool, if used as such. After all, it has been the motive force for the evolution of form, experience, and individuality, forever. From amoebas or parameciums, viruses and stuff, onward. The individuality of each lifetime serves as a spur for the next, times a jillion or so. Ego is essential for each one, codified as instinct in mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and insects. So a human, believing fully in him/herself, ego fully localized, is the highest developed animal on the planet. Only when the ego is set up as our rightful tool, placed precisely on the altar of surrender and transcendence, do we learn about the Divine path available only to human beings. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@> wrote: > > > > Ha! Yes, far more often than not it appears that person doesn't really WANT > > to get enlightened. Not with their whole heart and soul and mind, anyway, > > not right now, right here, more than anything else in the world. Too many > > illusions about what enlightenment means, and how this right here and now > > can't possibly be That... > > I am sorry if this sounds odd; it has been a sore spot with me for some time, > some of these wavicles of Us who claim they want us and then fight us tooth > and nail when we try to bring them home! For some of us it can be quite a > painful dance for a while. But understandable, seeing as they may deep-down > see Us as death... >
