While on 'ego surfari' I came upon this page. What a wonderful time to be alive, despite the general horrors of existence, not to mention those particular to our time and place and individual circumstances. See the Whole from many sides. There is much more to it than your foreshortened persepctives allow. Don't obsess over the those crushed in Haitian and Chilean earthquakes when there is also bliss and beauty and beatitude in the world. If you decry the shit, don't ignore the beautiful roses it fertilizes.
As for the ego, it is ugly and odious -- Le moi est haïssable said Pascal famously and pensively -- but that is only its night side: ego betokens spirit in us. Only a spiritual being can say 'I' and mean it. An answering machine can say it but not mean it. Only an I can recognize and love a Thou and stand master of the universe in thought. An ambiguous structure, the ego is a principle of both alienation and union.
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