D. To get from breakfast to supper we have to live the
whole day.
3) Every individual is different and separate from every
other. The Ego believes that I am distinct from you. The
twain cannot meet. I can hurt you and it won't hurt me.
4) The predominant impulse of life is self-preservation.
Because our existence is physical and thus vulnerable to
innumerable evils, we live and act out of fear in all we do.
It is wise, the Ego believes, to have children to carry on
our line when we die, to achieve great things that will live
after us, and to buckle our seat belts.
5) There is no God. No sphere exists except the physical and
no rules apply except those of the material world.
These are the principles the Ego lives by. They are sound
solid principles.
Here's what the Self believes:
1) Death is an illusion. The soul endures and evolves
through infinite manifestations.
- Time and space are illusions. Time and space operate
only in the physical sphere, and even here, don't apply
to dreams, visions, transports. In other dimensions we
move "swift as thought" and inhabit multiple planes
simultaneously.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD *37
