There is no spiritual growth in the reasoning mind...we’ll get understanding there, but we can stay there, “understanding the problem,” till our face falls off. Until we go beyond the reasoning mind, and use that understanding to turn our own self over to the care of God, we've just got some pretty words that we keep repeating.
Ego reduction in depth is our call...not to break it, but to reduce it daily. I don't know...If we break it, we likely break the reason we keep coming back for still more spiritual growth. I'm reminded of when first I learned about humility. Humility, I read, is a healer of pain. What a concept! I'd always wanted a pain killer for which we can take any number of things. But they only kill the pain for a limited amount of time. Humility heals the pain and gives us the peace that we keep by passing it on.
Same goes for ego reduction...it is for us to go to God daily with our ego perception (s/he done me wrong) and seek translation of that perception into God’s truth (love him, her, it). We will never be rid of the ego, but with God’s grace and our willingness, we can train our ego to give over to God, to cede its nonexistent power and feel the freedom, know peace.
We keep bringing our ego back to that free place for ego will always legislate for itself first...that's its job. We are not in it to break it, we are in it to reduce it through still more spiritual growth...always and all ways.
Thank you.
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