The EGO

-How to remove the ego (the hardest battle with the ultimate rewards) 1. Stop being affended. That wich affends you only weakens you. 2. Let go of your need to win. Ego loves to divide us up into winners and losers. 3.Let go of your need to be right. Ego is the source of much conflict and dissension because it pushes you in the direction of making other people wrong. 4. Let go of your need to be superior, true nobility is not about being better than anyone else. 5. Let go of your need to have more, no matter how much you achieve or a quire, your ego will insist it isn't enough. 6. Let go of Identifying yourself on the basis of your achievements, we all are working together as one for a goal of growing consciousness together. 7. Let go of your reputation, your rep is not located in you. It resides in the mind of others. 8. Have unconditional love for yourself, and everyone else as equal and of the same importance as you, you will never love anyone until you truly love yourself. Be humble, not conceded or any other egotistical trait. 9. Embrace your fear. Fear is a tool used to show you areas in your life to fix. Fears are used by the ego to control your emotions. Once you remove ego and understand your fears, you take control of your emotions, and you stop giving your energy away. Practice this everyday. When meditating as for guidance from only yourself and no one else. Practice this until you feel more connected to your true self. When you finally remove the ego, everything you do feels right and you only do things that benefit your whole being. You learn great lessons about life that most people spend their whole life trying to learn. Freedom.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look. Julius Caesar 75 BC The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent. Fundamentals of Chess 1883 The only real enemy to have ever existed, is an eternal one. The Road to Suicide, pg 1, line 1 Your friends are close, but your enemy is closer. The Road to Suicide, pg 1, line 2 One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every game and con there's always an opponent, and there's always a victim. The trick is to know when you're the latter, so you can become the former.

"There is something about yourself that you don't know. Something that you will deny even exists, until it's too late to do anything about it. It's the only reason you get up in the morning. The only reason you suffer the shitty boss, the blood, the sweat and the tears. This is because you want people to know how good, attractive, generous, funny, wild and clever you really are. Fear or revere me, but please, think I'm special. We share an addiction. We're approval junkies. We're all in it for the slap on the back and the gold watch. The hip-hip-hoo-fuckin' rah. Look at the clever boy with the badge, polishing his trophy. Shine on you crazy diamond, because we're just monkeys wrapped in suits, begging for the approval of others." "One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every game and con there's always an opponent, and there's always a victim. The trick is to know when you're the latter, so you can become the former." To Ego; "Oh, I know you're still there... cause I can feel you dying. I can hear you tapping me... for a little nutrition. Now who's looking for a fix? It gets a little tight in here, do you? Well, you're not wrong... cause the walls are moving in. No food here. Not today, sunshine. My eyes are open and the restaurant's closed. Jog on. Slide off. Find someone else to fill your pipe. Someone, who won't see you coming... or know, when you're there." "The greatest con, that he ever pulled... was making you believe... that he is you." The ego is the worst confidence trickster we could ever figure or imagine because you don't see it. The problem is that the ego hides in the last place that you would ever look: within itself. It disguises its thoughts as your thoughts. Its feelings as your feelings. You think it's you. Peoples need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, kill, do whatever it takes to maintain ego boundaries. There is no such thing as an external enemy no matter what that voice in your head is telling you. All perception of an enemy is a projection of the ego as the enemy. In that sense, you can say that 100% of our external enemies are of our own creation. Your greatest enemy is your own inner perception; is your own ignorance; is your own ego. ego:

noun 1. an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others 2. your consciousness of your own identity [syn: self] 3. (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind sorces = Revolver fifth volume of Michael Reynolds's biography of Hemingway. http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=chzqWI346DI&list=FL5ZpoA3y0xgWVJvPyqsP61g&index=1&feature=plpp_video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoXHa6i25tI This is very interesting... alternate ending reveals a lot to the puzzle solver and the thinker... Its very interesting that the quotes are from Hemingway, but labeled "road to suicide" (A book that I don't think exists, or at least I cant find it)... and Hemingway himself committed suicide, perhaps he found a way to beat the ego... Looking deeper, you will find many kabbalistic connections between Hemingway, Hitler, the producers/directors of this film and hollywood for that matter...