A New Earth
To
become free of the ego is not really a big job but a very small one. All you
need to do is be aware of your thoughts and emotions – as they happen. This
is not really a “doing,” but an alert “seeing.” In that sense, it is true that there
is nothing you can do to become free of the ego. When that shift happens,
which is the shift from thinking to awareness, an intelligence far greater than
the ego's cleverness begins to operate in your life. Emotions and even
thoughts become depersonalized through awareness. Their impersonal nature
is recognized. there is no longer a self in them. They are just human
emotions, human thoughts. Your entire personal history, which is ultimately
no more than a story, a bundle of thoughts and emotions, becomes of
secondary importance and no longer occupies the forefront of your
consciousness. It no longer forms the basis for your sense of identity. you are
the light of Presence, the awareness that is prior to and deeper than any
thoughts and emotions