Kytka’s Picks: August, 2002

As a Leo, I used to find myself struggling with issues of ego. I speak out freely, oftentimes straight from the heart without much thought to how people may perceive what I have to say. I received this wonderful message from Christopher Robbins and he allowed me to re-post it here for your consideration & inner working. Enjoy!

Precisely because the ego, the soul, and the Self can all be present simultaneously, we can better understand the real meaning of “egoless ness,” a notion that has caused an inordinate amount of confusion. But egoless ness does not mean the absence of a functional self (that’s a psychotic, not a sage); it means that one is no longer exclusively identified with that self.

One of the many reasons we have trouble with the notion of “egoless” is that people want their “egoless sages” to fulfill all their fantasies of “saintly” or “spiritual,” which usually means dead from the neck down, without fleshy wants or desires, gently smiling all the time. All of things that people typically have trouble with–money, food, sex, relationships, desires–they want their saints to be without. “Egoless sages” are “above all that,” is

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