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When Ego Is At War With Life
Life begat consciousness, and consciousness begat ego.
Ego, like consciousness before it, was a tool made to serve life.
And life was happy, knowing it had a forever partner with which to share itself.
The role of ego was to serve life, to protect it, to guide it, to wonder in its miraculousness.
And in return, life permitted ego to experience and partake in the ever-present miracles.
But ego begat three children: pride, jealousy, and covetousness. Covetousness wanted life for itself, and did not wish to share life with LIFE. Jealousy wanted ego to BE life. Pride made ego believe that it was greater than life, not merely its servant.
Life was all that was. It had solidity, form, a tangible existence. One only had to have eyes to see life. Whereas ego was nothing but a program run by and in the service of life. It had no existence on its own, could not exist without life. But ego, unable to see itself since there was nothing to see, began to imagine that it was actually the life upon which its existence relied. It saw the body and mistook it for itself. It felt the energy and believed it was its own energy. With the whisperings of pride, jealousy, and covetousness, it forgot it was the servant and sought to be the master.