Isaiah 10:13 · World English Bible
For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom. Such words come from a self swollen with its own doing, certain it alone authored every result.
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EGO & BEING
By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom. Such words come from a self swollen with its own doing, certain it alone authored every result. Assyria breaks borders and empties treasuries and credits all of it to one small word: I.
That little word carries the whole illusion. When a person believes he alone moves the world, he stops feeling the larger life that flows through his hands. The power was always borrowed. The ego forgets this the moment it starts counting its conquests, and that forgetting is where its fall begins.
Ego v. Being lens
Where in your life are you quietly keeping score of your own doing?
The sage acts without claiming. Work gets done and he does not stand over it saying it was his, and because he takes no credit, nothing he builds turns against him.
Actions move through a person the way weather moves through a valley. The one who says "I am the doer" has mistaken himself for the whole sky.
Your effort is yours. The outcome never was. Confusing the two is the root of every later shock.
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Ego v. Being