“You are your own friend, and you are your own enemy”
You decide. Even if a lot of information or support is available to you, yet ultimately the support cannot decide on your behalf. The judgement must be written in your own handwriting, in your own ink. You may have a team to assist you; you may have seniors to advise you, but the signature below the judgement you pass on your life will always be yours. Nobody else can decide for you.
It is such a great exposition of one’s own complete responsibility towards himself. If you don’t want to do it, who else will do it? And if you do not want to do it, then you’ve already done it—but you have done the wrong thing. You have decided to keep basking in all the lowly places.
What is low state of ego?
If you are honest, then your suffering is the answer. If you remain fearful, suspicious, tense, anxious, if you feel the need to be cunning and deceptive, if you have stuff to hide and you fear being exposed, then you have telltale signs that you are living in a lowly state.
What is higher state of ego?
On the other hand, if you live carefree, if you can be spontaneous, if you see things that are obvious, simple, yet missed by most people, if the world does not appear like an enemy to you, if you can freely give, if your head doesn’t keep spinning with thoughts, then you are the higher state of the ego
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What is Stage of Happiness?
The normal, common happiness that we get is just a glimpse. It is a valuable glimpse even if it lasts for a limited time; it still tells us that freedom from suffering is possible. It is the thirty-second trailer to a three-hour movie.
The thing is, that trailers do not last long and trailers are free, for a movie you have to pay your way in. Happiness comes to you so that you become interested, you become inquisitive, your longing gains depth and you start seeking permanent happiness. That is called the cultivation of deeper happiness – ‘Ananda’.