{"id":395,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:59:07","slug":"ego-in-here-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Ego in Here &#038; Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>Can the Ego operate in the Here &amp; Now?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px; color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Ego will treat the &#8220;NOW&#8221;<br \/>\nin one of three ways: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"6px; color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">as a means to an end,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px; color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">as an obstacle,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px; color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">as an enemy,<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/smiley_angry.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"137\" \/> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">(1) The Ego promises to get you to some future moment that is considered better than the Here &amp; NOW. As the future can never become the Now, you are never Here and always trying to get There.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">(2) The Ego treats the NOW as an obstacle to overcome, resulting in impatience, frustration, and stress. The Ego sees Life, the NOW, as a problem that needs to be fixed, before it is <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">happy<\/span>, or start <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">really living<\/span>. A universal law of Life is called Attraction. It says: &#8221; I&#8217;ll be whatever you want me to be: <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">See me as a problem, I&#8217;ll be a problem to you<\/span>.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">(3) Hate what you&#8217;re doing? When you complain about what happened or is happening, or things should or shouldn&#8217;t, you argue with WHAT IS. You make Life into an enemy. Then Life says: &#8220;War is what you want, war is what you get.&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/angry-smilie-md.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"133\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The question <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">&#8220;What is my relationship with Life?&#8221;<\/span> will unmask the Ego and shift you into the State of Presence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">How about asking this question until you are there?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=396\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>read more &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 194px; height: 274px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2%20fools.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"2px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=986\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Your Dark Doppelganger<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can the Ego operate in the Here &amp; Now? The Ego will treat the &#8220;NOW&#8221; in one of three ways: as a means to an end, as an obstacle, as an enemy, (1) The Ego promises to get you to some future moment that is considered better than the Here &amp; NOW. 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