HOW DO I GET THERE? |
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| Let Go of All Ego Thoughts |
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The ego's fundamental wish is to replace God.
Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God? |
W-72.2:1
T-11.II.7:1 |
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| EGO |
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| What is the ego? |
C-2.1:4 |
| But a dream of what you really are. |
C-2.1:5 |
| To the ego sin means death, |
T-19.IV.A.17:3 |
| ...without the ego, all would be love. |
T-15V.1:7 |
| The miracle forgives; the ego damns. |
C-2.10:1 |
The ego always seeks to divide and separate. |
T-7.IV.5:2 |
the ego...[mistakes humility] for self-debasement.
Humility consists of accepting your role in salvation
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W-61.2:2-3 |
| ego vacillates between suspiciousness and viciousness. |
T-9.VIII.2:7 |
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| The ego is the part of the mind that believes in division. |
T-5.V.3:1 |
| Consciousness is correctly identified as the domain of the ego. |
T-3.IV.2:2 |
| The ego is quite literally a fearful thought. |
T-5.V.3:7 |
| Do not be afraid of the ego. |
T-7.VIII.5:1 |
| The ego cannot survive without judgment, |
T-4.II.10:3 |
| The ego always tries to preserve conflict. |
T-7.VIII.2:2 |
| To the ego, the guiltless are guilty. |
T-13.II.4:2 |
| The ego becomes strong in strife. |
T-5.III.8:8 |
| The ego is a contradiction. |
T-4.I.2:8 |
| It offers you nothing. |
T-4.IV.6:2 |
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| Step back from fear, and make advance to love. |
W196.11:6 |
Minimizing fear, but not its undoing, is the ego's constant effort,
The ego can and does allow you to regard yourself as supercilious, unbelieving,
"lighthearted," distant, emotionally shallow, callous, uninvolved
and even desperate, but not really afraid.
How can [ego] preach separation without upholding it through fear, |
T-11V.9:2,13 |
…we have repeatedly emphasized the need to recognize fear and face
it without disguise as a crucial step in the undoing of the ego. |
T-12.I,8:5 |
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The introduction of reason into the ego's thought system is the beginning of its undoing, for reason and the ego are contradictory |
T-22III.1:1 |
The ego seeks to "resolve" its problems, not at their source,
[Holy Spirit] seeks and finds the source of problems where it is, and there undoes it.
And with each step in His undoing is the separation more and more undone,
and union brought closer. |
T-17.III6:1,3,4 |
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The ego is not a traitor to God, to Whom treachery is impossible.
But it is a traitor to you who believe that you have been treacherous to your Father.
That is why the undoing of guilt is an essential part of the Holy Spirit's teaching.
For as long as you feel guilty you are listening to the voice of the ego,
which tells you that you have been treacherous to God and therefore deserve death.
You will think that death comes from God and not from the ego because,
by confusing yourself with the ego, you believe that you want death.
And from what you want God does not save you. |
T-12.VII.14:1-6 |
| Release from guilt is the ego's whole undoing. |
T-13.IX.2:1 |
| When you lay the ego aside, it will be gone. |
T-8.VIII.8:6 |
| From the ego came sin and guilt and death, |
T-19.IV.C.3:1 |
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