The opposite of love
It occurs to me that the opposite of love is ego.
Maybe that's been said before, but it's just sinking in to me.
It was Jochen who posted recently that ego is a need for specialness. Craving for specialness is a need to be loved more. It is a need to be the fairest of all, the most beloved of all, the utmost of all.
Desire for specialness is desire for separateness. It is desire to be above all the world.
How can God's beautiful words pour through me and I still be possessed of ego. This is what I don't understand. This anomaly is beyond my understanding.
There is also another side to this. I have also come to an obvious conclusion, and that is:
Everyone deserves to be treated as special. That means we are to treat everyone as special so that everyone knows how special he is and doesn't have to look for it.
It has to be that the person I am talking to now is the most special person in my life at this moment, and it is for me to help that person have a renewed sense of what a treasure he is, and, so, when he leaves, he knows who he is, and he's walking on air.
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It was Normand.
"Anomaly" is a fitting term. No precedent, nothing to compare it with, a l l explanations wrong or severely lopsided (which, of course, is ego's doing).
Gloria Dear, Just leave ego and do not think about it. Ego goes away then, as it is unenployed. When Ego feels its uselessness it will go. So simply, just be yourself ful of LOVE. That is How I see you. Love Jack
Jack, you see what you are!
Love has no opposites! The tap is somewhat open or somewhat closed. The water is always there.
I'm with Jack. Here's to sacking the ego.