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Ego February 14, 2007 Every person has two selves, one true and one false, the ego. Someone living by his or her ego participates in anything that may bring him or her status, power, popularity, and pleasure regardless of how this may affect everyone else. An ego seeks tangible things, hoping that they may satisfy it. Of course this search ends in vain even if the ego receives everything it desires. The ego desires an external reason for everything, a reason to spread joy, be happy, or do a good deed. It hopes to change situations from the outside, attempting to change the painting but not the painter, resulting in failure. An ego-based person waits for something, a reason to live his or her own life. That reason will never come. It's time to begin your life, or continue to run with it at full speed. To change your circumstances first focus on the internal, not the external, because the external is the reflection of the internal. As is the internal, so is the external. Trying to mature requires examination of your roots, the principals you live by. Instead of forcing the world to change, look closely at yourself, and fix the problem at its source. A plant grows from its roots. Without them, it would die. If you lift up a dead plant in an attempt to cause it to grow again you will fail. Instead, you must water its roots. Only then can it begin to grow. An ego works to change the world from the outside by running after everything of the world. However, humans were given something more, a consciousness, and an awareness of what is right and wrong. It is your true self that can change the world. If you seek to better yourself then you better the world. If the world is getting you down, get yourself up. Attempts to cause everything to go your way will fail. You cannot control anything but yourself. So to change the world, change yourself, and to change yourself you must look past your ego at what is true and waiting to be discovered. Joshua Schwarz