A Life Mission
from The Divine Eye: Seeing the Good in Everything and Everyone, March 24, 1995, Oasis Bookstore, Amherst, Massachusetts
There’s just a little bit of a ledge for you between these two titans. God can destroy egos, but does not do it often. Even though you may feel at times that your egos have been severely bruised, they have not been destroyed, because one of the most important things about this life, is conquering your own ego. Deciding you want to. And then deciding you’re going to. And sticking with it through it all. And never stopping. And the only thing that makes someone who decides to do that path, give up, is the ego saying, “Look, take a rest. You deserve it. You’ve done so well. You’re almost done. Look how much ego is gone now. Tell others.”
Oh, dear ones, our ego is bigger than anyone’s! It was a great ego. We don’t miss it. But we think fondly of it sometimes. Because that ego led us into great battles occasionally, and caused us to vanquish foes ten times our strength in number. But by our egotistical smartness, we were able to outthink, and outflank our enemy. And to destroy them. And thinking back, what good did that really do? Did anything good come of that?
When an ego is so great, you can see how pitiful it is. It is with the pitiful egos that it’s difficult, because they haven’t yet accomplished anything meaningless!
Seeing the Good. Seeing the Good in everything and everyone is a life mission that everyone is free to take, or to not take on, as they wish. We want you to know, you have no obligation to anyone, nor to God. No obligation to decide to get rid of ego, only look with God’s eyes, see the Good at all times. All these things are not assigned to you. They are only free on the smorgasbord for you to sample. And for you to hold on to, if you know inside yourself that that is what is right for you.
Everyone has been given the exact proper number of lifetimes, and in every life, this one, for instance, the right number of years and days and hours and minutes to make the decisions they are called upon to make, and to experience the consequences of those choices. So, there is no need to be afraid.
The greatest error, in spiritual teaching, is to instill a sense of fear in others, that they must change their ways. The greatest error, for any spiritual sharing between peoples or between beings, is to tell others that they are on the wrong path. And that they better switch fast. This is playing purely to the ego. Because the part of yourself that becomes afraid that you are on the wrong path, and that you had better switch fast, is the ego that doesn’t want to be left out, that doesn’t want to lose face, that doesn’t want to make a mistake. All of that is ego.