Question: Is it possible to have a friendship with the ego? Or a friendship between the false I and the real I? ET: The ego, in the way I use the term, isnt really the ego if you recognize it. In other words, if the ego is operating in you, you wont even know it. []

Question: Im 34 years old and have a good job and a good home; Im married to awonderful man. I have bad anxiety, and I have no idea what I want from my life. I havelow self-esteem and I get defensive easily. Im rarely content or grateful. My thinking is sonegative. I need approval from []

There are many accounts of people who experienced that emerging new dimension ofconsciousness as a result of tragic loss at some point in their lives. Some lost all of theirpossessions, others their children or spouse, their social position, reputation, or physicalabilities. In some cases, through disaster or war, they lost all of these simultaneouslyand found []

The mind exists in a state of not enough and so is always greedy for more. When youare identified with mind, you get bored and restless very easily. Boredom means themind is hungry for more stimulus, more food for thought, and its hunger is not beingsatisfied. When you feel bored, you can satisfy the minds []

You cannot see space, of course, nor can you hear, touch, taste, or smell it, so how doyou even know it exists? This logical-sounding question already contains a fundamentalerror. The essence of space is no-thingness, so it doesnt exist in the normal sense ofthe word. Only thingsformsexist. Even calling it space can be misleading because []

What is a negative emotion? An emotion that is toxic to the body and interferes with itsbalance and harmonious functioning. Fear, anxiety, anger, bearing a grudge, sadness,hatred or intense dislike, jealousy, envyall disrupt the energy flow through the body,affect the heart, the immune system, digestion, production of hormones, and so on. Even mainstream medicine, although []

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