“Every need has an ego to feed”
Bob Marley
This morning as I drove into work, with my man Bob Marley
blaring through my stereo, the above quote was a line from his song that moved my
spirit to be the theme for today. Hot on the heels of this quote I remembered another
by Neale Donald Walsch that enabled you to mitigate the ego’s need, “Enjoy
everything, need nothing.”
We all have desires, wishes, hopes and dreams that can
become such a distraction we end up forever projecting into the future, missing
our present moments altogether. We do
not have to keep feeding our ego with our yet to be realised wants and needs. This
is the great diversion that keeps your mind away from the most powerful and
creative force of NOW. Each morning I
try and set an intention for the day,
sometimes it could be a day of serenity, or a day of joy or a day of
introspection. However, once I firmly
set my intention and ingrain it as a thought in my mind, I am constantly reminded
of my intention throughout the day so that I become aware of my ego’s knee jerk
reaction to people and situations. In
that moment when the ego wants to arise in me, my intention for the day comes
flooding through enabling me to choose another course of action that will
reinforce my intention rather than take it away.
If we are constantly feeding the ego’s need, when is there a
time to enjoy EVERYTHING! There are moments when the ego needs to have its
point of view heard, or it needs to have things done in its own way, or it
needs for someone to conform to its own way of thinking and not give another
person their own right to think for themselves.
The ego needs to have you worry constantly over a situation that is out
of your hands by keeping your mind focused upon a negative.
Just for today be aware of feeding your ego’s need and
choose to enjoy your moment of now instead.
“If every need has an ego to feed then I choose to enjoy EVERYTHING and
need NOTHING.”
Namaste
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