Are You Addicted to Your Ego?

Wholeness is safe; duality isn’t. Wholeness brings a seamless, unified world, but you will not know what that world feels like until you give your allegiance to a new operating system. Shifting from the old system to the new one is a process, one that each of us must commit ourselves to every day.

Our shared addiction to duality is total; it leaves nothing out. The good news is that no aspect of life is immune to transformation. Every change you make, however small, will be communicated throughout existence–quite literally the whole universe will be eavesdropping on you and lending you its support. From its point of view, the formation of a galaxy is no more momentous than the evolution of a single person.

A skeptic will protest that this new operating system is only a matter of perception, and that just seeing yourself as the creator of your reality doesn’t mean you are. But it does.

Reality shifts as you do, and when you change your perception of being separate, the one reality responds by shifting with you. The reason everyone doesn’t notice this is that the ego-based world with all its demands, pressures, drama, and excesses is highly addictive, and like any addiction it needs a daily fix as well as denial that there is any way out. By giving your allegiance to the one reality instead, you won’t end the addiction immediately, but you will begin to starve it. Your ego and personality, which give you limited awareness of who you are, will be put on notice that clinging and grasping must come to an end. Your conditioning from the past that told you how to win out over the outside world will no longer help you survive. The support you counted on from external sources such as family, friends status, possessions, and money will no longer make you feel secure.

Rest assured that perception is flexible enough to let go of the addiction to duality. Any event can be seen as coming from the creative center in oneself. At this very moment I can look at any part of my life and say “I made that.” Then it is only one step away to ask “Why did I make that?” and “What do I want to make instead?”

Adapted from The Book of Secrets, by Deepak Chopra (Random House, 2004).

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Danuta W.

12:27AM PDT on Aug 24, 2012

Thanks for sharing this info.

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Abbe A.

4:00PM PDT on Jul 9, 2012

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Basim N.

2:31PM PDT on Jul 9, 2012

Thanks

Teresa W.

7:48AM PDT on Jul 2, 2012

No, I don't think so.

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Gerald M.

4:37PM PDT on Oct 16, 2011

About a hundred years ago Wallace D. Wattles said essentially the same as does the thrust of this article. I'm thankful to both writers.

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Wild T.

10:03AM PDT on Oct 12, 2011

Not as addicted as my country is to its super-ego...

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Melinda K.

6:14PM PDT on Oct 11, 2011

I think we orient towards what feels familiar and familiar is not always what is best for us.

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Nancy M.

6:48AM PDT on Oct 11, 2011

This is an interesting way to think about the path to wholeness.

Ana Marija R.

12:26AM PDT on Oct 11, 2011

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Thank you for sharing this great article:)

Gaby D.

11:21PM PDT on Oct 10, 2011

Goodmorning Deepak and all Care2 friends gathered here. Thank you for this post Deepak and the many, diverse and wise comments. This post offers food for thought. Deepak states that shifting from a ego based reality to a perception of wholeness, and switchting operating systems is a process. Not a poof ...you are there type of thing. "By giving your allegiance to the one reality instead, you won’t end the addiction immediately, but you will begin to starve it. Your ego and personality, which give you limited awareness of who you are, will be put on notice that clinging and grasping must come to an end. Your conditioning from the past that told you how to win out over the outside world will no longer help you survive. The support you counted on from external sources such as family, friends status, possessions, and money will no longer make you feel secure." That sounds like a bit of a process indeed.
Not so easy ...and perhaps that is the most difficult phase......somewhere in betwixt and between, neither here nor there. I'm still in the process I'm sure. Perhaps that is why at times I feel uncomfortable......and want to get back on 'earth'.
Namaste.