Tuesday, January 22, 2013  The Humbling of the Ego  It's been
awhile since I talked directly about the ego, and yet thanks to
popular spiritual teachers and discourse, it's now a regular
subject among spiritual path wanderers, wayfinders, and
travelers. In truth, the ego is just another facet of being a
human being. It is no better or worse than a foot or an elbow.
However, in its unconscious state, the ego certainly can cause a
good deal of trouble. The more we identify with our ego-selves,
the more trouble we can get into.  That's why so much discussion
has popped up around destroying, removing, incapacitating,
obliterating, or otherwise undermining the ego. But it is an
important distinction to say that we're doing this to the
"unconscious" ego. It is fully possible to have a conscious ego
--which is an ego that knows it's just a part of the whole and
doesn't know everything in the world. So when we take apart the
old, re-inventing the new is also important. It is part of
coming into the natural flow of thi