Once you start exercising the muscle of keeping the ego in check and slowing revealing itself, you get better and better at keeping it in check and eliminating the worthless pursuits it occupies you with. What part of ego is constructive? There must be something but I do not know. Like love and pride all may have its place.
I really don't think putting Love and Pride on the same footing has the essence of what those things mean in relation to ego (self) If, as 1st Corinthians 13 asserts, "Now abideth faith, hope and charity (love) within a singular compact, then the antithesis of that would be evil, pride and arrogance. In the first compact would be hearing and healing, in the second would be unconscionable harms by intent. Although it is assumed that no altruist can be truly selfless, and no Shylock can be truly heartless, it is those mingling of facts and folly that reveal the authentic from the fiat, IMHO.
I think this musing is fascinating and immediately was taken back to an unpublished (on substack or elsewhere) hypothetical conversation I was having with my three astrological signs at a "sudden death" funeral in 2022: with my sun sign (Pisces) arguing against my rising sign (Virgo) bracketed against my moon sign (Scorpio) where the two water signs teamed up of sorts to ask the ultimate question: was he Covid jabbed or not? But in reading this I intuitively aligned with Spirit (Sun) Soul (moon) and Ego (Rising)....
Once you start exercising the muscle of keeping the ego in check and slowing revealing itself, you get better and better at keeping it in check and eliminating the worthless pursuits it occupies you with. What part of ego is constructive? There must be something but I do not know. Like love and pride all may have its place.
I really don't think putting Love and Pride on the same footing has the essence of what those things mean in relation to ego (self) If, as 1st Corinthians 13 asserts, "Now abideth faith, hope and charity (love) within a singular compact, then the antithesis of that would be evil, pride and arrogance. In the first compact would be hearing and healing, in the second would be unconscionable harms by intent. Although it is assumed that no altruist can be truly selfless, and no Shylock can be truly heartless, it is those mingling of facts and folly that reveal the authentic from the fiat, IMHO.
I think this musing is fascinating and immediately was taken back to an unpublished (on substack or elsewhere) hypothetical conversation I was having with my three astrological signs at a "sudden death" funeral in 2022: with my sun sign (Pisces) arguing against my rising sign (Virgo) bracketed against my moon sign (Scorpio) where the two water signs teamed up of sorts to ask the ultimate question: was he Covid jabbed or not? But in reading this I intuitively aligned with Spirit (Sun) Soul (moon) and Ego (Rising)....