OVERCOMING THE EGO

“So when you recognize… And I know you all can recognize when the ego has you by the hind end, you all know it. Instead of playing along with it by going deeper and deeper and down and down, which it just loves… instead of doing that, do this, ‘I know this is either the energy of inertia or the energy of control. I desire to be rid of both. I want to go up,’ and make a concerted effort to go up. Now the ego’s not going to say, ‘Oh! Alright. Good-bye!’ It’s going to grab you by the feet and pull you down. It’s going to do whatever it can do to keep you from going up. And then is when you have to use your discernment – what is the voice in your head telling you? Is it saying, ‘You go for it. You get up there.’ Or is it saying, ‘Why do you want to bother doing that? You know that’s not going to work. You won’t be up there long enough to tie your shoes. So why do you bother to go?’

You have to listen to what voice is in your head. If it’s discouraging, down-putting in any way, you’re listening to the wrong voice. If you are hearing a voice that says, ‘Come to me, my child, I love you and I will protect you,’ then you are listening to the right voice. And everything, I care not what it is, in your world that you deal with every day, the same spiritual law applies. The same one: Detach. Detach. Detach from the result. That is the only way you can beat the ego.

08/21/2024 Blog. Nq-on Kar, A Tibetan Master, TRUE DETACHMENT FROM ILLUSION, April 29-21, 2013, Pg. 8. Copyright © 2013 Rev. Penny Donovan and Donald Gilbert. All rights reserved. Photo (c) Anderswiken - Dreamstime.com

A.M. Affirmation

"Proclaim upon awakening at least once but three or four times is better: 'I am spirit and I am active on the physical plane. Everything I do, I do from the spirit of me.'"

08/19/2024 Blog. from seminars given by Archangel Gabriel. Copyright © 2003 Rev. Penny Donovan and Donald Gilbert. All rights reserved.

How to Change

“Let’s suppose that you want to change where you work, what you do, and so forth. You can look at it in many ways. You can look at it with the fear that you cannot support yourself. ...Or, you can look at it with an attitude of: Does this give me joy? Will I be very happy doing this? Will I have a sense of freedom, of expansion, of growing, of learning, of teaching, of healing, of helping others, of being wise, of having a depth of understanding that causes me and allows me to be very compassionate toward everyone and myself? How is the pattern of my life helping me to fulfill the purpose for which I came? Those are all questions you can ask yourself. And if you answer honestly, you will be amazed at how quickly and easily you get a sense of direction of what you need to do.”

08/18/2024 Blog. Ascended Master Stella, RESURRECTION AND FAITH, February 10-12, 2012, Page 22, Copyright © 2012 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved.