"Your ego is a set of thoughts that define your universe. It’s like a
familiar room built of thoughts; you see the universe through its
windows. You are secure in it, but to the extent that you are afraid to
venture outside, it has become a prison. Your ego has you conned. You
believe you need its specific thoughts to survive. The ego controls you
through your fear of loss of identity. To give up these thoughts, it
seems, would annihilate you, and so you cling to them.
There is an alternative. You needn’t destroy the ego to escape its
tyranny. You can keep this familiar room to use as you wish, and you can
be free to come and go. First you need to know that you are infinitely
more than the ego room by which you define yourself. Once you know this,
you have the power to change the ego from prison to home base."
- Ram Dass -
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