Tag: ego

Wisdom and information

Posted on by philipdodson

All the wisdom we’ll ever need is within us from the day we are born until the day we die.

‘Intelligence’, as it is perceived, is what we learn from books, school, the internet. That is just information to be stored in our mind. It’s also another ego-driven activity so that we can feel superior to someone else by knowing information they don’t. Or a way of conditioning the mind and false you and me.

The real answers for a peaceful, joyful and free existence do not come from information, they come from wisdom.

Wisdom comes from our soul, from our being, from our very essence. It is a feeling, an intuition, a guidance from the universe. It is the feelings of the real you and me, not the fantasy of the mind. We instinctively always know what to do and then the mind takes over, if we allow it, and sabotages, the ego and the story get in the way. Thought overrides wisdom when we are consumed with our mind. We do something based on information, fear or other peoples thoughts, when we instinctively know and feel different.

When we allow wisdom to flow, when we are conscious, when we are away from our thoughts, then we can deal with anything and create what we want. We allow the light to shine.

Wisdom is all we need to just be, information is for the mind.

Victim and/or punisher

Posted on by philipdodson

When we’ve been hurt by someone else’s behaviour or words, often the mind plays up and decides that our ego has been bruised, the self-image tainted, we feel that we need to enact vengeance, to get revenge, to punish or the opposite, play the victim and seek attention and feel sorry for ourselves. In most cases, there is a bit of both punishment and victimhood.

These games that we play serve no purpose at all, other than to perpetuate the victim/punisher role that is played out in the mind and continue our own internal pain. It is damaging not only to ourselves in terms of the suffering we unduly cause inside, it is also damaging to the people we inflict our victim/punisher behaviour on. It is not for us to judge and punish other people’s choices of behaviour.

If we stay conscious, if we allow the reaction to just be, if we choose not to be internally bothered by others and if we choose to just simply observe our ego and thoughts, then we stay calm, at peace and do not react out of fear and its other emotions.

That does not mean we have to outwardly accept others and their choice of behaviour, it simply means inner surrender and acceptance to what is, to accepting others as they are and to not allow suffering within from our ego’s desire to be a victim or a punisher of others.