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Wilma on Our ego cannot exist in ‘Heaven on Earth’
Their ego-thoughts are not preventing them from loving the piano. Not yet anyway.
As always many thanks to everyone who commented on the Monday post; ‘What are your issues with migrating to Heaven on Earth?’
It is a challenging post.
It is one thing to read about ‘Heaven on Earth’ in spiritual texts but it is quite different to actually aspire taking such a huge step in daily life.
And as for migrating there, well Angelia Sims was honest enough to say what was so for her;
I haven’t really stepped out of my southern Oklahoma/Texas culture comfort zone.
And then she went on to say what else was so, with stepping out of her comfort zone;
But I have had to really adjust at my new/old job… The ego definitely takes a beating.
But it also makes me perfect for this job, because I keep my calm and my ego in check.
Congratulations Angelia, because a job like this is a great training ground for moving on from your ego. Moving on from ego type thoughts requires a lot of practice and we need to take every opportunity we can get.
Go Angelia go.
Jan Lundy on the other hand has migrated and assimilated to Heaven on Earth and sees it this way;
A heaven, a hell, a little miserable clod of complaints, or pure gratitude for being here. It is how we choose to be and see and live….
Joy and Maryse too are clear that they are migrants to Heaven on Earth.
There is a prevailing and understandable confusion about the ego and where it fits into the scheme of things. Maryse brought this confusion to light with her comment;
I’m a migrant … to Ego-less land. I’m going to point [out] here that I do not take the ‘less’ as ‘absence of’ but as ‘not as much of’. I believe that my ego is here for a reason… In an ideal scenario, as I’m migrating to that new land, it’s with me to help me handle life as it comes. It keeps me organized and alert while I flow and co-create. Like we have two brain hemispheres (the left for human doings and the right for spiritual being), we have Love/God as our driver and the ego as the navigator. But migrating we must. Because an Ego driven life of control is not only exhausting, it’s doomed to fill us with stress, dread, and fear. So I’m joining the bus to Heaven on Earth.
There is general agreement that we have an ego, or ‘ego-thoughts’ as I prefer to call them and as Maryse says; “an Ego driven life of control is not only exhausting, it’s doomed to fill us with stress, dread, and fear.”
We are also in agreement that a life filled with stress, dread and fear is not what we want.
However like Maryse, many of us have great difficulty in imagining a world completely without ego-thoughts. It is hard for us to imagine a world where the word ‘ego’ relates to an extinct civilization where ‘ego-thoughts’ were once prevalent. This is especially difficult for us to imagine because for most of us, our Little Voice is our ego; it is part of us and therefore hard to have it disappear.
Its survival is the egos only concern. The ego is very well established in our mind and very cunning; it has all of our intellect at its disposal, so it has many ways of retelling the story to keep itself alive and keep its seat on the bus. Maryse very astutely noticed that her ego for example is even claiming the navigator’s seat in her mind. Yours too will want a seat on the bus to Heaven, even if it is a small hard-to-see seat at the back of the bus and your mind, but it still wants a seat and it’s not going to let you get on that bus alone if it can possibly help it.
Argue as the ego may, the logic of the situation is against the ego. Heaven on Earth is a place of Love, it knows no fear. As Jan says; it is a land of pure gratitude. In a land of Love there is no place for ego.
Life without our so called ego is possible; it did exist once and will exist again. The challenge for each of us is to be clear about that.
Our so called ‘ego’ must go. Just like you can’t be half pregnant, you can’t live in Heaven on Earth with a little bit of the old ego thought pattern hanging around. One excludes the other.
I agree that this takes some doing, as for most of us the ego thought pattern is firmly in control.
This journey to Heaven on Earth (without our ego) is not something we can achieve alone. As Joy says;
I am actually surrounded by these new inhabitants, some of whom are trying to welcome me with open arms, but I had no idea until this moment…because I *was using* my old vision finders…
We at WomenLikeMe are welcoming you with open arms; however if you look with your ‘ego’ vision finders you will not see us.
WomenLikeMe is fatal to the ‘ego’ and ‘it’ knows that.
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Wilma,
Until my ego takes a long walk off a short pier I will continue to listen for guidance, spent time in prayer and silence and watch out for exactly what my ego brings up for me to heal and then heal it. It’s an everyday process and the day I skip is the day I’ve created hell on earth. Thanks for your thoughts and sharing on the topic. Have a great weekend. xo
Tess The Bold Life´s last blog ..Stepmom’s Tool Box with Peggy Nolan
Tess, you are so honest, you do pay attention and are so aware. I love you for that because change takes some doing and it is good to feel you know that too.
This is a radical change and that does require enormous rigor and alertness.I keep repeating that Marianne Williamson keeps saying that we are NOT trying hard enough and I agree with her. This ego mind is hard to change and it takes a lot of work and most of us do NOT pay attention or ask for help!!!!!!! This is not something we can do alone, it is too invisible like lipstick on our teeth.
I compare it with when I in the beginning of my living here in New Zealand I sometimes slipped back into talking Dutch. I had no idea and only realized it when I saw the eyes of the person I was talking to glaze over. We are so unaware of how invisible our thinking and action pattern is, it is incredible ingrained in us.
So again thank you for supporting me in knowing this is not something to underestimate. The results are incredible valuable so the effort is worth it. Your article about the oil spill is such a good example of helping us how to think differently from our ego culture that just wants to blame, accuse, complain and others to sort our collective problems.
Tess, you rock and you probably get how much I value your support. When you visit us I will show you how much. XOX Wilma
Hahaha Tess, I love that. Take a long walk off a short pier
Wilma: Wonderful post and I couldn’t agree more that we have to continually work to control our ego. As Tess said, it is an everyday process. I think the key is understanding when it is working against you and then choosing to continually rise above it. Great post and great insights … as always.
Sibyl – alternaview´s last blog ..Choose to Be at Ease and Everything Will Improve
Hi Sibyl, I agree with what you say here;
For me it has been all about understanding what is going on, that certain thoughts my mind is engaging with that are sabotaging me to experience living in Heaven on Earth right now.
The mind is not bad, the thoughts it is having need a make over and that takes work and attention on my part.
But that is what alternaviews is about too, isn’t it. xox Wilma
Hi Wilma .. I need to think about this post and I’m not in that position just now .. but my mind will mull over ‘ego cannot exist in heaven’ .. and when brain space permits I’ll come back and absorb what you’ve said and everyone’s comments.
Have a great week – from a very hot Eastbourne & we’re on the coast .. Hilary
Hilary´s last blog ..Nature in Balance and the Dark-Bellied Dew Lover-
Hilary once again thank you for NOT underestimating what is being said about the ego.
It is imperative that we pay attention and to know when we can’t. It pays to be honest about that and realize that sometimes our attention is on practical things in life and we need to commit to another time to absorb this new way of thinking and behaving. As always I salute your commitment to not take this lightly.
Great that summer is arriving finally, enjoy it amongst all your busyness when you can.
Love Wilma
Wilma,
I can definitely attest to the fact that WomenLikeMe is an assault on the ego – the program is not for the faint of heart – it takes a lot of courage and strength and expose the ego for the fear mongerer it really is.
Love,
Peggy
Peggy´s last blog ..Over-Booked- Over-Scheduled- and Over-Committed
Oh Peggy, don’t I know it that what we are on about is not for the faint hearted. It takes real courage to see the wholesome ‘what is so’ and be a stand for your own part in all this. It takes commitment and honesty to be confronted with your own obsession with what you think you know! To let that go and be totally open to examine everything you do and know, that is big, like starting to learn to live all over again.
I had a bit of an idea as I had to do that as a migrant, so I had some experience and it is actually quite hard to let go and start all over again. I did feel for the Russian and yet at the same time, the poor man had no other chance than to let go of his past status before he could rebuild his life again.
So we all have to let go of our ego, let it crumble and then build it up again. The same has to happen with the world, all this ‘civilized’ money system that is so exclusive has to crumble and that will hurt our collective egos.
However just like the Russian, we have no choice, so good on us to go for change.
Hugs Wilma
Hmmm this post is very interesting. I am definitely a migrant and new comer to this whole ego-less world. And I’m actually reading “A New World” right now! I am so very new at this so it has been quite a challenge to try and keep my ego at bay.
I don’t really know how to go about doing it sometimes. I’m not sure anyone I know personally lives ego-free and I feel that if I did have people to surround me in my day to day life it would be great. For now, I feel like I do a pretty good job at spending time with people who act less off fear and more out of love and I think that’s a good start.
Thanks for this great post Wilma and educating me further on this “Heaven on Earth”. Who would choose that vs. how we normally live? Of course we want it, but after years and years of doing the exact opposite it’s a HUGE challenge to change.
~Kristie
It sure is a challenge, Kristie. These thoughts that we call our ego are the negative fearful ones, cultivated by a society that has established norms and ideologies that are NOT serving individual human beings. It is hard to imagine that society as it is has gone in such a direction that is killing us and the environment we live in. But the evidence is there, but nobody seemed to know what to do about it really.
However there is a new image how we could organize life via a new society and change always starts with a small group. There have been civilizations that were good for people, like Atlantis and Lemuria and the Vedic Culture in old Russia. But there is little known about these and I for a long time thought that those old cultures were just nonsense to be honest. But now I observe this current culture I have to say that that is nonsense as well. So when I got more knowledge about those other cultures I got to see they make more sense and I now see that they could have existed. So now I have accepted them as a great image of how a great world looks like and now I can work towards those. And working towards those great world images starts with checking my thoughts as thoughts are the precursor to any acting.
I trust that this is useful as a background why change is hard and why you do not have many people around you who understand this. It is all very new and it takes time to trickle down. But I am thrilled you are here and on other blogs so you can build your own understanding at your own honest level. Way to go Kristie, you are building a great future aspiration that will make you feel alive and that you have a purpose. How beautiful. xox Wilma