Only you can know that. Yet you’re the one who said you had an ego problem. I observe that
true self-love disappears the ego, it does not enlarge it. Put another way, the larger your
understanding of Who You Really Are, the smaller your ego.
When you know Who You Really Are fully, your ego is fully gone.
But my ego is my sense of myself, no?
No. Your ego is who you think that you are. It has nothing to do with Who You Really Are.
Doesn’t this contradict an earlier teaching that it’s okay to have an ego?
It is okay to have an ego. In fact, it’s very okay, because an ego is necessary in order for you
to have the experience you are now having, as what you imagine to be a separate entity in a
relative world.
Okay, now I’m thoroughly confused.
That’s okay. Confusion is the first step toward wisdom. Folly is thinking you have all the
answers.
Can You help me here? Is it good to have an ego, or not?
That’s a big question.
You’ve entered the relative world—what I call the Realm of the Relative—in order to
experience what you cannot experience in the Realm of the Absolute. What you seek to
experience is Who You Really Are. In the Realm of the Absolute, you can know this, but you
cannot experience it. The desire of your soul is to know itself experientially. The reason that
you cannot experience any aspect of Who You Are in the Realm of the Absolute is that in this
realm, there is no aspect you are not.
The Absolute is just that—the absolute. The All of Everything. The Alpha andthe Omega, with
nothing in between. There are no degrees of “Absoluteness.” Degrees of things can only
exist in the Relative.
The Realm of the Relative was created so that you can know your Self as magnificent,
experientially. In the Realm of the Absolute, there is nothing but magnificence, and so
magnificence “is not.” That is, it cannot be experienced, it cannot be known experientially,
because there is no way to experience magnificence in the absence of that which is not
magnificent. In truth, you are One with everything. That is your magnificence! Yet you cannot
know the magnificence of being One with everything while you are One with everything,
because there is nothing else, and so, being One with everything means nothing. In your
experience, you are simply “you,” and you have no experience of the magnificence of that.
The only way for you to experience the magnificence of being One with everything is for there
to be some state or condition in which not being One with everything is possible. Yet since
everything is One in the Realm of the Absolute—which is the ultimate reality—something not
being One with everything is impossible.