A page from my book today – a fresh one 😊
EGO, and yes I have spoken abut this little “demonised” word before, however as I faced it again this week, let me see if I have missed something, and in hope hand someone a message…
And let me touch on the “materialistic” ideas that are unique to little old me
EGO noun
- a person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance.
“he needed a boost to his ego”
| synonyms: | self-esteem, self-importance, self-worth, self-respect, self-conceit, self-image, self-confidence;
amour propre “he needed a boost to his ego” |
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- PSYCHOANALYSIS
the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity.
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- PHILOSOPHY
(in metaphysics) a conscious thinking subject.
adjective: materialistic
- excessively concerned with material possessions; money-oriented.
“we’re living in a highly materialistic society”
| synonyms: | worldly, consumerist, money-oriented, money-grubbing;
capitalistic, bourgeois; acquisitive, greedy, grasping, avaricious, rapacious; informalyuppie “a materialistic society that worships consumer goods” |
| antonyms: | spiritual, religious, intellectual, aesthetic |
Seems you in for a long one this morning, forgive me, I have to rid my vessel, mind, body… my everything of this…
I think we have spoken of the tongue so many times over, and yesterday I bounced a “thought” off a friend – people see straight forward communication as rude, obnoxious, ego-driven, “full-of-themselves. And in there you may be right, however, you could be so miserably wrong too… as a person that has a good and healthy helping of confidence, I am too seen as that, rude, scary, obnoxious, full-of-myself person… however when you “get to know me”, you will find that what I preach I practice, if I say no, it is no, there is no room interpretation with me. It is as “BLACK and WHITE” as you can find. If I ay maybe, it means that I am weighing the options, and if it is a yes, well – no one in this world knows if by some horrid joke of the universe that you might just end up sick as a dog (I hate that that saying, rather dislike).
Ego, darling I have worked damn hard for that self-assuredness. I have fallen to the depths of the underworld, I have crawled until my hands and knees bled, I have done, I have learned, and I can face what lessons comes my way – will I master them… no-where did I say, I have mastered, and nowhere did I say, I know it all, I know what I know… and that is ALL I know. Do yourself a favour and please go back up and read once again what EGO is all about….
Ah, materialistic, WOW…. I did take a step back, and now, maybe looking at the definition from the outside – it may be that I am “money-driven”, so, let’s see – 43 cats to feed, one human child, 4 dogs, birds, one husband, myself, and the odd requests for a tin of food here and there.. do you not think that somewhere you would also be “MONEY-DRIVEN…
Sad however, that the antonym is firstly “spiritual”; religious – OH HELL NO, and thus, a synonym for religion is spiritual – go figure… 😊
I suppose there is a HUGE STOP SIGN for me somewhere… and I honor just that… that stop sign, that moment handed to look at me, myself and I, critically and under the microscope -look says the “I”, find the truth for the words, find yourself in there somewhere, and then slowly, slowly turn around and change, but never, never forget that EGO as helped you get to where you are, and spirit does not ask you to cast EGO out.
