The story of ego
Ego was playing outside. It was haughty, and very naughty indeed. It never listened to others. Peace, love, happiness, charity, and joy among others lived in the same house but they never could get along with ego. Ego was like that always, always had been. The way ego was treated by others was in no way doing any good either. Everyone was treated well but ego wanted special attention and care. Ego wanted extra servings, ego wanted every new item that was bought and brought into the house.
Why was ego like that? No one knew. Ego used to be self-contained which meant that ego was always praising itself. It never praised others nor recognized other people’s efforts and achievements. Well, everyone had had enough of ego. They decided to throw ego off from the house. They planned and one day decided to tell ego that it was no longer accepted as a member of the house. They confronted ego. Ego put up a great fight but then peace, love, happiness, and joy had joined hands and with the support of charity and unselfishness, threw ego away and it went off in search of another house where it could be friends with pride and selfishness and greed.
The moment ego left the house, peace and love celebrated along with happiness and joy. Together they baked a cake of harmony and invited the neighbors like friendship and kindness. All of them had a great time.
This is a symbolic representation of our own human life where the house can be compared to our mind. If we cross out the I and throw away the ego, then we will have happiness and love in our lives and all the good things will return to our life. As we grow up, we lose many things along the way. It is time to rekindle the goodness in our selves.
I had written this a few years back and had stored it in a folder. Hope you like it. Please share it if so.
These are powerful spirits, some of them can live together in harmony and some can not. Isn't it interesting how they can come and go from our lives? We can look in one direction at someone successful and be moved to envy, then turn to see our child playing and there is love. The spirit that balances all other spirits and brings them into proper perspective and place in our life is truth. When you have truth then you can see that the envy is misplaced and you would understand what you would be required to sacrificed to order gain the object of your desire, and know that the price would be too high. We could go through each of these spirits and temper them with truth. The truth seperates what is good from what is evil. The truth thus tells ego that it is better to give than to receive and that the greatest gift is love. Why? Because the more love you give the more you will receive and the greatest need of a soul is to be loved.
wow, thanks for this wonderful reply. I will store it. Stay blessed
good enough for an additional science for me thanks for sharing with us @sayee
This is lovely, thanks for sharing! Have you ever listened to lectures by the late philosopher Alan Watts? I think you'd like him ... he combines spirituality with philosophical insight and a charming sense of humor!
Be well :)
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Wonderful allegory, @sayee. We all need a healthy ego to then be able to let it go. The stages of growth of our psychological health. Arrested development is probably the source of most atrocities in this world. Thanks for the thoughtful post. 25% upvote.
thanks a lot
beautiful and so true!! Thank you for sharing this!!!
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a very nice post @sayee thanks forgot to see my post @zulfikri
Thanks to @snook, this post was resteemed and highlighted in today's edition of The Daily Sneak.
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Thanks so much. That is so much inspiration