A New Earth
In fact, you are the awareness
that is aware of the voice. In the background, there is the awareness. In the
foreground, there is the voice, the thinker. In this way you are becoming free
of the ego, free of the unobserved mind. The moment you become aware of
the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old,
conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego
cannot coexist. The old mind-pattern or mental habit may still survive and
reoccur for a while because it has the momentum of thousands of years of
collective human unconsciousness behind it, but every time it is recognized,
it is weakened.
REACTIVITY AND GRIEVANCES
Whereas resentment is often the emotion that goes with complaining, it may
also be accompanied by a stronger emotion such as anger or some other form
of upset. In this way, it becomes more highly charged energetically.
Complaining then turns into reactivity, another of the ego's ways of
strengthening itself
annaabi.ee 
