Ezekiel 13:14 · World English Bible
So I will break down the wall that you have plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered. It will fall, and you will be consumed in the middle of it. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
You build walls and cover them with smooth plaster to hide the cracks. This is what the ego does.
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EGO & BEING
You build walls and cover them with smooth plaster to hide the cracks. This is what the ego does. It constructs an image of who you are and covers the emptiness with pretense, hoping the structure holds. Anything built to hide the truth rests on nothing, and sooner or later it falls.
When the wall comes down, its foundation is laid bare. This can feel like being consumed, because the self you thought you were is collapsing. Yet what is revealed underneath is not destruction. It is the awareness, the I Am, that was there all along, before you ever began to build.
Ego v. Being lens
What am I spending energy keeping up?
Stand on your toes to look taller and you cannot stay standing. What is propped up by effort falls when the effort stops.
The self you defend so carefully is a construction, not a thing. Seeing through it feels like losing everything and turns out to be freedom.
What is yours cannot be taken; what can be taken was never yours. When the borrowed image collapses, what is left is the one who was holding it.
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Ego v. Being