Table of Contents for Root Meanings
General notes:
- Root Meanings is a work in progress that will continue to emerge and evolve until the Mind of minds is absolutely clear. The definitions below are subject to evolution.
- Many excellent and useful definitions are not yet included. If you would like to make a suggestion, you may do so here.
Revision: 15 Jul 2023
Ego
A working definition for humans: The habitual pattern of rejecting what is, labeling what seems to be other as “wrong,” and building a life upon the accumulated misperceptions, judgments, and mistaken beliefs regarding reality.
- A delusion of separateness.
- A state of fearfulness based on the belief in separation from THE SUPREME.
- Absence of awakeness.
- Absence of clarity.
- Absence of enlightenment.
- Adherence to the “crazy idea” of separation.
- Defended idea of self.
- Defended sense of self.
- Defending a sense of self.
- Defending an idea of self.
- Divinity/God/Source in a state of confusion.
- Divinity/God/Source in a state of delusion (for strong or extreme ego).
- Does not exist as an entity.
- Fascination with unreality.
- Hiding from Divinity/God/Source. Hiding from THE SUPREME.
- Hiding from reality.
- Hiding from truth.
- Identification with a sense of separate self.
- Strong attachment to an idea of self.
- Strong identification with form.
- Persistent negation of Divinity/God/Source. Persistent negation of THE SUPREME.
- Persistent negation of oneness.
- Persistent negation of reality.
- Persistent negation of truth.
- Persistent rejection of Divinity/God/Source. Persistent rejection of THE SUPREME.
- Persistent rejection of oneness.
- Persistent rejection of reality.
- Persistent rejection of truth.
- Persistent rejection of being Divinity/God/Source. Persistent rejection of being THE SUPREME.
- Running away from Divinity/God/Source. Running away from THE SUPREME.
- The prodigal child.
- Ego is characterized by fearfulness, first and foremost.
- Ego is insanity.
- Fascination with ego is ego.
- Fixation on ego is ego.
- In profound clarity there is no ego.
- Thinking as if ego exists is ego.
- Willfulness.
- The we that results from egos coming together is a collective expression of egoicity.
- There is no need to resolve or heal ego. The only necessity is to recognize that there is nothing to defend.
- When ego is transcended, Supreme Life is remembered.
What is the nature of ego?
- Fearful
- Confused
- Defended
- Depressed
- Traumatized
- Disempowered
- Self-centered
- Mistaken
- Angry
Sayings:
- “The truth of ego – for there is truth in all things – is that YOU are, in fact, central to all that is. YOU are the center of attention. YOU are ‘God’s gift’ to humanity.”
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