LIFE AND THE LAW - EGO

EGO AND INADEQUACY

To let yourself be driven altogether by others is an abandonment of your purpose on Earth. To drive yourself, on the other hand, is to let your human wants, and your imagined needs, take the place of that inner wisdom. To guide yourself in a calculated, conscious fashion is to let your ego play God in your own life, This appears to work for a great many people; these are the people who achieve great successes and then wonder why they are unhappy--why they still feel the need to search.

To be driven by your wants is to be driven out of a sense of inadequacy and lack. Wants grow out of a feeling of incompleteness, the sort of feeling that superficial conscious mental activity tends to generate.

We are very good at burying the still small voice, and feeling our lack of prosperity, we are driven to chase those bucks; or feeling a lack of love, we cling to one person after another, wondering why the bloom quickly fades. Feeling our inadequacy, we strive to excel at everything we do, and it never seems good enough. Feeling our lack of Joy, we chase after it from party to party, laughter to laughter, faking joy outwardly to make up for emptiness inside.

Can anyone here relate to that? I've been there. In some ways, I'm still there some of the time.