Inspirational Quotes & Stories about the Ego
If you believe in limitations, separations, judgment and fear of any
kind, you have bought into the illusion that has been sold to you by the
ego as reality. Likewise, if you respond to any person, place or thing
with judgment, sadness, negativity, stress, anxiety, annoyance or anger,
know that you have bought into the same illusion. These beliefs of what
you are have been ingrained and reinforced in you in such a way that
they have now become habitual. These habits, this habitual belief system
(simply referred to as the ego-self or ego) is what you use to react to
your daily experiences. This habitual belief system is mostly an
unconscious belief system that manifests itself as your beliefs and
attitudes. These beliefs and attitudes influence your daily reactions,
responses and behaviors toward yourself, your fellow humans and the
world in general. Like robots, any time you react with limitation,
separation, judgment or fear, you are simply reacting as you have been
programmed to. Eventually you will learn that this is not how you want
to act, react, be or live. Slowly you will consciously become aware of
your unconscious habitual belief system, and you will begin to
de-program yourself. This should be a time of great celebration, for as
you become aware of your programming you also begin to understand the
possibility of choice. You learn that you indeed have the choice of
seeing things as you've been programmed to, or reviewing what you
currently believe to see if it fits with what you truly desire. You can
now choose whether you want to continue with that limited belief system
or replace it with a more empowering understanding.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 4-5
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There are places in your life where you have built walls around the
truth of who you are. You've built these walls with judgment and
cemented them with fear. You strained all your life to build and keep
these walls together. These walls that you have built to protect you
hold all perceptions, judgments and beliefs about yourself, your
brother, God and the world. You hide behind and defend these walls with
your life, for you believe that if someone were to ever penetrate them,
they would recoil in disgust once they saw who was really there.
Methodically, on a daily basis, you reinforce these walls, creating
emotional, psychological and spiritual barriers. You take secret pride
in their structure and strength. Yet with every breeze, you curse the
pebbles that bounce off these walls. And you even blame the wind for
blowing. You keep telling yourself that you are safe, and yet you fear
any breeze that dares caress your walls.
You have been taught to believe that in your walls' changelessness, your
strength and safety lies. You are taught to fear change, for it means
that your walls would weaken. So you defend these so-called impenetrable
walls against anything that challenges their structure. To you, anything
and everything that differs from your belief system challenges its
structure. You spend your day in defense of pebbles, and curse the wind
whenever any of these pebbles are tossed toward your walls. So you end
up living your days in defense of these impenetrable walls. The walls
that you built to defend you, you end up defending against the outside
world, and you judge and curse any attempt to change or weaken them.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 13-14
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You perceive the attacks (disagreements with your belief system) on your
ego and its illusion as real, and so you become defensive. The more time
you spend defending your false or ego-self, the more you reaffirm its
reality. The more you reaffirm its reality, the more willing you are to
come to its defense. The more you defend the illusion of the ego-self as
real, the more concepts and ideas you will encounter in the world that
don't fit into your reality. You perceive different concepts and ideas
as assaults to your reality. You defend your ego-self, through the act
of judgment. The exercise of judgment separates you from your fellow
brother or sister causing stress that may be conscious or unconscious.
Stress creates confusion, and a build up of confusion ultimately leads
to chaos.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 26
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My friend, I am here to remind you that peace of mind, love and joy are
your inheritance. Peace of mind, love and joy are the main attributes of
the Godself. We all have a Godself, because we are simply our Godselves
and nothing else. Everything else including our ego-self is an illusion
we have created to help us live in the illusionary world. The ego is a
speck of dust that we have made into a mountain. Yet still, what is even
the highest mountain to the universe, to All That Is? As the illusion
that is the ego slowly dissolves in the light, so too will the mountain
in time return to dust.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 30
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The ego would like you to believe that you are disconnected/separated
from your brother or sister and from God. My friend, as much as the ego
would like for you to believe this, you have never been disconnected
from your source. Your source is God. Your brother and sister's source
is God. Neither you nor your brothers or sisters have ever been
disconnected from God, thus neither you nor your brothers or sisters
have ever been disconnected from each other. Therefore, what you do to
your brother or sister, you do to yourself.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 33
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The ego has you see yourself as a drop of water on its rowboat. You are
in the middle of the ocean and the ego continually tells you that you do
not belong in the ocean. You can see and feel the ocean and something
within tells you that it is there you belong. But the ego tells you that
if you jump into the ocean you will drown. It tells you that as long as
you are with the ego you will be safe. So day by day, you move back and
forth on the ego's rowboat. You feel a small sense of safety but also of
limitation, separation and loneliness and the ego has you blame the
ocean for this. It tells you that it is because of the ocean that you
feel limited, separate and alone and you buy into it because you believe
that you and the ego are literally in the same boat. My friend, there is
a natural pull you feel toward this ocean, but you can reject its pull
if that is your choice. Yet your current rejection of it does not stop
it from calling you home.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 34
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The ego wants you to think of it in negative terms, it wants you to
judge it. It controls you and maintains and obtains power through your
judgment of it. This gives it more power than if you were to simply
ignore or forgive it. Its plan is this: the more you judge it, the more
attention you give it. The more attention you give it, the greater part
of your life it becomes. Thus, its relationship with you is
strengthened. It wants you to become angry, judge it, and see it as
evil, for it understands that if you see it as evil, you will
unconsciously perceive a part of your own being as evil. The ego lives
for the day when you will consider the possibility that the capacity for
evil lives within you, and that it is a natural part of who you are. If
you see the ego as evil and you believe that evil is a natural part of
who you are, then you and the ego must be the same. It would serve you
well to understand that the ego is not an evil aspect of yourself; it is
simply a misperception that you hold about yourself, and nothing else.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 34-35
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"Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch?"
- Luke 6:39
Cited in You Have Chosen to Remember, p.36
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Everything that the ego's world offers you as a belief system is, in the
end, really just junk. You have placed different values on illusions,
and thus, some junk, material things and ideas seem more valuable to you
than other junk. Being just illusions, junk's value is ever changing and
never lasting. But everlasting peace and joy cannot be found in the
never lasting.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 44-45
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The ego rules by fear because that's all it knows. It has invested a lot
of time in making you believe its fairy tale as true. It has already
instilled in you the belief that you can be a failure. It knows that you
fear being a failure and that you fear being homeless, and thus it uses
these fears against you in order to control you. But the only reason
that you fear being a failure and that you fear being homeless is that
you believe that you can be. Fear and failure are used by the ego to
chain you to its world. It has also enslaved many others in its name,
and has taught them how to judge those who dare not follow its laws. The
ego, with its soldiers of judgment, observes your every move. From its
ivory tower, it guards your every thought, waiting for you to disagree
with its laws, to send its judgment upon you. Those who believe
themselves to be enslaved by the ego, those who see the ego as their
master, carry out this judgment. They obey the ego because they fear the
ego. Because they have bought into the ego's illusionary thought system,
they believe that they and their brothers and sisters are separate, and
because they are separate, one can be judged without affecting the
other.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 96-97
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Forgiveness is not a natural reaction for the ego-self. If the ego-self
even considers forgiveness, it might do so saying that your brother
deserves forgiveness because he was simply in an immature or insane
state at the moment when the "infraction" or "error" occurred. The ego's
sense of forgiveness is to look upon your brother as insane or immature.
By saying this, the ego is implying that the infraction or error is
real; that there is something to forgive, and that somehow you are more
or better than your brother-that you're the "bigger person" because you
can forgive. It is also saying that your brother is capable of insane or
immature behavior, thus making insanity, immaturity and their
consequences real. Even in forgiveness, the ego's secret and silent goal
is separation.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 155
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The ego-self will always answer first because it has made itself your
instinctive response. In truth, it is not your instinctive response, but
you have been trained by it and thus you react as you were trained.
Speaking with anger and condemnation is a natural response to the
ego-self; it makes you right for doing so. Anything that differs from
your point of view of how the world and those in it should behave and
react is taken by the ego-self as an attack upon you. And the ego-self
continually tells you that it is right and honorable to defend yourself
against an attack.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 166
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It is a part of everyone's development to react with negative emotions
or feelings toward their brothers and sisters. In fact, it is the ego's
hope that you judge every brother you meet, and blame every brother for
how you feel. The ego tries to make your brother responsible so that you
will not take the time to look within. The ego hopes you will judge your
brother any time he acts in a way that differs from your belief system.
Yet the ego's hopes are also its demise, for the more it gets you to
react the way it wants you to, the more you will realize that it is a
fruitless, insensitive and an agonizing method of existence.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 170
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There will be bumps
on almost every road down here. The key to living a more balanced life
is not to judge, curse or avoid the bumps but to see them as blessings.
The ego-self will want you to see bumps as bumps because it has already
taught you how to react to them. The ego has already taught you that you
have every right to judge, curse or try to avoid the bumps. It has
already taught you that such a reaction is normal and correct. But has
reacting in such a manner ever brought you true peace of mind and joy?
Has reacting in such a way ever brought more clarity and balance to your
life? Thus, it is such a stretch to say that the ego's normal and
correct way of reacting to bumps has little or nothing to do with you
achieving peace of mind, joy, clarity, and a balanced life. My friend,
if you deal with bumps by judging, cursing or by trying to avoid them,
you have bought into the ego's thought system as being real. If you have
bought into the ego's thought system as being real, then is it any
wonder why achieving peace of mind, joy, clarity and a balanced life
appears difficult to do?
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 244-245
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