by Merci Gracia | Aug 23, 2015 | Ego
Who do you like to spend time with? People who regale you with stories of their latest impressive accomplishments or people who are really present with you in the moment you’re sharing? Egos love to take turns talking about themselves, but your authentic self is not...
by Merci Gracia | Jul 25, 2015 | Ego
What bothers us most about other people is often the very thing we don’t acknowledge or accept in ourselves. Our egos like us to think our judgments are all about others. But, because it’s so difficult for us to look at ourselves objectively, life uses the...
by Merci Gracia | Jul 22, 2015 | Ego
Mistakes don’t define who we are. We aren’t what we do, who we know or what we own. The reason we connect so deeply with old friends is that we recognize that no matter how divergent our paths have been, we’re all essentially the same as we were way...
by Merci Gracia | May 22, 2015 | Ego
Basing your identity on something you’re against is a trick the ego plays to keep you confused. For instance, the word atheist means not a theist. How can someone be not something that they actually think doesn’t exist? The word non-dual acknowledges...
by Merci Gracia | May 6, 2015 | Ego
It’s normal to experience embarrassment when a situation threatens the way you’d like to be perceived. Scrambling to uphold an image exacerbates the issue. There’s nothing more calming than noticing the embarrassment and feeling it. Just allow it to...
by Merci Gracia | Aug 30, 2014 | Ego, Love, True Self
Do you sometimes experience a terrorizing little voice in your head? Don’t believe it! It’s just your ego-identity attempting to preserve and enhance the image it’s trying to project to the world. If you can recognize its fear-driven machinations as...