Ask the Author: Question and Response
 

In your experience / opinion is a show of inflated ego actually a way to cover a personal extreme inferiority complex?  

- Bashir,  London, England

The ego is a mask that you have shaped and molded - and now identify as being the real you. The ego is the newspaper you use to wrap heaven with and then present this wrapping to the world as heaven. The ego is the illusions and lies you heard in a fairy tale long ago that you now choose to call reality. It is a passing fog you charge with defending your beliefs, and a mirage in the desert that you think will satisfy your thirst.

The ego by all definitions and manifestations is an illusion that is real to you because you have perceived it as real and have been convinced of its reality. The ego is valued and leaned on to the degree that it is used by each individual. If a young child needed a crutch to walk with, would you take it from him or would you lend him your hand? Allow people their crutch until they are well enough to not need one. Let yourself be an example to them that there is a light at the end of the tunnel where no crutch is ever needed.

The inflated ego does not so much as cover over a personal extreme inferiority complex, personal extreme inferiority complex is an extension of the ego. It is your focus on the extension of illusions through the act of judgment that creates chaos and confusion in your life. For if you did not believe in the ego illusions, you would not believe in the manifestations of its extensions and would not be sucked into the fairy tale scenario.

What the ego-self defines as “a show of inflated ego,” the Godself would remind you that - it is your hand and not your judgment that your brother or sister is asking for. He or she is asking for clarity and assistance in the best way this person knows how. And your one and only decision lies between smiling, understanding and lending a hand or judging, stressing out and regretting.

So my dear friend, smile, and lay aside all beliefs in demonstrations of inflated ego or personal extreme inferiority complex, and allow the light that is within you now to extend outward, caressing and blessing all it comes across, turning judgment into understanding and understanding into gratitude. For would gratitude not be your response to the knowledge that God entrusted you with his son and daughter in their time of need?
 

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of the great spiritual / self development book You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey from Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy by James Blanchard Cisneros.