This is by a good friend of ours, George Por – I do like the part about sending the ego to the hospice!
“People’s deeply held and exercised values guide their attention. Those values are central to their sense of identity and evolve over time, typically, from narrower to broader life-focus. That’s how “I in the family” becomes “I in the circle of my friends” that may become “I in my organization/nation.” Nowadays, a growing number of people reach the “I in the world” altitude.
“All that is more or less linear ego development that many of us went through. The ecstatic jump, the jump out of linearity, comes with the end of duality in next phase that is “I as the whole.” That is when the ego is sent to hospice, when we recognize the fundamental oneness of reality as our true identity and let our actions show it.
Most people never reach that stage but it doesn’t mean that our narrower identities are less important or less needed by the never ending Spiral of evolution, the “great process.”
