[aliceingoogs]

there is something to be said about humility. often times while i respond or browse the forums, or even have an ‘ahh ha!’ moment, its easy to become inflated just a bit. the ego is a fragile thing, constantly looking for the advantage where ever it can. it needs the advantage to survive in this now modern jungle. where survival needed to depend on hunting skills and strength, now it needs to rely on social standing weather real or illusory.

i find these inklings in myself and i have to take a step back. i have to disarm the ego lest it get the better of me. i want and desire to be appreciated and looked up to, but if that means i have to look down to see others then i’ve lost my way. i have to remember that when i look at others, i am looking at myself. in the bigger picture, i am god observing aspects of my own conscious flow. i have to see other people, as ra states, as other selves. they are the other parts of the whole of which i am a part.

we go on stating that we are god, that we are part of the infinite. the ego can identify with being god, but it has a hard time accepting that others are god on the same level. as intrinsic as it is, survival must now take the role of surviving in the spirit as well as in the flesh. we must account for our spiritual connection to one another, looking for sameness and wholeness where at first survival demanded we see others as separate so we could bring resources to those that matter (me myself and i, and associated supporting other selves).

now ‘i’ must include ‘we’ and even ‘we’ still hints at the separateness within a group. ‘i’ must come to include other selves, other parts of the whole. eventually we must break down the barrier of separateness that we see in ourselves, the individual focus, to include other selves. humility becomes necessary, so that no distortion of division or separateness exists. humility is humbling the ego so that it understands that other ego’s are and can be in the same ‘i am’. if the ego perceives itself to be on some other level than other selves, there is a separation or divide.

the ego, thinking it is god, may see service to others as god helping it’s lower and separate parts. but this isn’t service to others, is it? this is a service to self, an aggrandizement of the ego to the point of self perceived greatness. the service to self is the ego playing into it’s own greatness. it helps others not because it sees them as itself, but rather as the role of ‘god’ to it’s ‘people’. humility keeps us all on the same level, no matter how high we get. it is our right to be called ‘god’ because that is what we are. that right gives us many rights and responsibilities. for the service to others, we must realize that even that is a misnomer. service to ‘others’ in, our language, means that the others are separate. it means that we must amend that statement to always include ‘service to other selves’.

so in humbleness and humility, i look to serve other selves even now. may we all be one god in light and love. blessed be.