I do not necessarily agree that the ego has served its purpose yet. Maybe you can use your ego to keep your strength when you’re trying to hold your ground?
Is it me or is the answer on almost all your life questions GREED?
Perception, a beautiful thing if you treat is as just that, a perception. Things are not always what they seem to be. It needs an open mind, but a ego doesn’t allow open minds.
I looked up ego on the search engines. If people talk about you having a big ego, it means you’re trying to be more important than you really are. Ego, it is what you think you are. Ego is telling you to be a victim, or that you are better than everybody, or unattractive. So if I am getting it right ego is telling us what to be, not who to be.
So the time has come to discover who we are. Than we could again take care of each other instead of 'thanking God it’s them instead of you' (always hated that line in that song)
I think the heart of the authors intentions and passion for helping others come across very ell through these chapters and look forward to reading more.
We were born to learn lessons what we have missed to experience in the previous [former] life [existence]. We came here to take lessons which we missed or were absent from or we came to re-take the same lesson which assignment was too difficult and the previous score was not good enough to pass or we made a big mistake.
We were born to experience because we can learn only from experience. We were born to experience the bad things because only bad things can make us improve, can make us understand the difficulty/pity of others. If we have experienced bad things we might be able to experience some good things as a reward, (hopefully).
While we are living, if we climb upward slope then we need to fall downward slope like a roller coaster. If the previous life was full of pain, the next like will be a rewarded one (full of joy).
We should be thankful even for bad things because we were born to experience those things. However, after we were born, we forget about it and try to avoid bad things naturally and we complain about the bitter experience and don't learn from that. Then we need another much bitter experience. Most people cannot be thankful even at the end of life. Then we need to live another life to learn more.
Your chapters from 1-3 are phenomenal. Ever since I started reading your book, I think on a daily bases how the EGO is effecting our lives. Based on our conditioned behaviors, how we treat others, how we are conditioned to believe something, how we cling to myths..etc. By reading your novel, it’s the first step to understanding how we got to this point in our lifetime. Yes, like you said, the EGO served it’s purpose and it’s time for it to be laid to rest. To achieve this, one has to become selfless and we are now at a time where it seems to be the most selfish era of our existence. That’s a huge challenge, convincing EGO’s to read your book and then I think of your words “Nothing Is Impossible, Everything Is Possible”
With all that is going on right now in the world, all I can say is Thank God for your book. Without it, I don't think I would be able to understand anything. Thank You Joe! ♥
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Is it me or is the answer on almost all your life questions GREED?
Perception, a beautiful thing if you treat is as just that, a perception. Things are not always what they seem to be. It needs an open mind, but a ego doesn’t allow open minds.
I looked up ego on the search engines. If people talk about you having a big ego, it means you’re trying to be more important than you really are. Ego, it is what you think you are.
Ego is telling you to be a victim, or that you are better than everybody, or unattractive. So if I am getting it right ego is telling us what to be, not who to be.
So the time has come to discover who we are. Than we could again take care of each other instead of 'thanking God it’s them instead of you' (always hated that line in that song)
Looking forward to chapter four.
This is my maybe oriental way of thinking.
We were born to learn lessons what we have missed to experience in the previous [former] life [existence].
We came here to take lessons which we missed or were absent from or we came to re-take the same lesson which assignment was too difficult and the previous score was not good enough to pass or we made a big mistake.
We were born to experience because we can learn only from experience. We were born to experience the bad things because only bad things can make us improve, can make us understand the difficulty/pity of others. If we have experienced bad things we might be able to experience some good things as a reward, (hopefully).
While we are living, if we climb upward slope then we need to fall downward slope like a roller coaster.
If the previous life was full of pain, the next like will be a rewarded one (full of joy).
We should be thankful even for bad things because we were born to experience those things. However, after we were born, we forget about it and try to avoid bad things naturally and we complain about the bitter experience and don't learn from that. Then we need another much bitter experience. Most people cannot be thankful even at the end of life. Then we need to live another life to learn more.
Thoughts after reading Chapter 3.
I finally caught up. :)
Your chapters from 1-3 are phenomenal. Ever since I started reading your book, I think on a daily bases how the EGO is effecting our lives. Based on our conditioned behaviors, how we treat others, how we are conditioned to believe something, how we cling to myths..etc. By reading your novel, it’s the first step to understanding how we got to this point in our lifetime. Yes, like you said, the EGO served it’s purpose and it’s time for it to be laid to rest. To achieve this, one has to become selfless and we are now at a time where it seems to be the most selfish era of our existence. That’s a huge challenge, convincing EGO’s to read your book and then I think of your words “Nothing Is Impossible, Everything Is Possible”
With all that is going on right now in the world, all I can say is Thank God for your book. Without it, I don't think I would be able to understand anything. Thank You Joe! ♥
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