3-30. The ego is tenacious. It will not relent. It cannot be conquered. Only Love has the Power to help you dissolve your ego into the nothingness from which it was formed.
Power is deeply misrepresented and egregiously misunderstood within this world. Power is presumed to be some form of domination, control or conquest. All of these presumptions of are simply presentations of the power dynamic of the ego, now taken up by those unwilling to see how pointless and incorrect they are, when they are regarded from a corrected perspective. Power bears no relationship with control, for to allow is powerful and to deny or resist requires an extension of effort that is wholly unnecessary. God is infinitely Powerful, yet God does not resist what will unfold, for within the nearly infinite array of all that could be, the end result of all of the searching that almost all of the Children of God engage themselves within is simply that they will Return to Love, when they are ready. What need is there to control such a process when the only possible conclusion of all of the fruitlessness of inquiry is that it will be abandoned in favor of acceptance? The ego is tenacious indeed. It will not relent because it cannot understand it is own illusionary nature and so it must continue, for it is a self-sustaining nothingness that arose because of an error of perception and lacking incorrect awareness presented unto it as its sustenance, it will simple disintegrate. And this the ego fears above all else, for it will be its undoing and while the ego does not know this, for the ego is not possessed of or invested in knowledge at all - it has only a very rudimentary system of inquiry, one that allows it to blindly explore only very simple conclusions. The ego knows nothing, but it fears everything. What madness would it be for you to attempt to sustain such a system, were you to take just the briefest of instants in which you could regard the ego as it actually exists? Be certain that you do indeed, for if you were to free yourself from the ego’s endless consternation, you would have no more use for it and it would crumble. That it continues is a choice, one most often undertaken wholly unconsciously, and so you should never deride yourself to continuing to invest in the ego’s offerings, even after you have begun to Awaken to the Infinity of Love. Conquest is a meaningless concept when it is regarded from the perspective of Love, for what is there to dominate when all is One and Love is All? It is a pointless perversion to posit the possibility that possession of anything, control over anyone, or a squelching of any other’s perspective holds a value for you that you cannot appropriately present or justify, but insist must be real. It is not. That is not the way of Truth, for all can be allowed to be just as they are and nothing is lost when you relinquish your desire to direct the actions, awareness or aggregate responsibilities that everyone holds solely for themselves unto your own ambit and scope. What are you offering to them? The ability to listen to you instead of their own heart? And if so, what can you justifiably present as gain for them that is not loss for you? What is all of this interexchange of effect save for the madness of the ego now made manifest within the world of form, not for the benefit of all but rather for the subjugation of many under the rule of so very few? The ego is as this to you - a delinquent despot and a blind ruler that will offer no succor but who will demand endless allegiance with no benefit at all. At first, upon realizing the wholly unbeneficial nature of your awareness’s relationship with your ego, which is of course is simply a misperception of your own nature, it is quite commonplace to feel the arising of a desire to “kill” the ego. This is a fallacy of the highest order, for you cannot destroy that which never was. To look at the ego and declare it your enemy is to continue to believe that it is possessed of a power that it has never enjoyed. Be aware of this stage of growth within the many layers of Awakening, for it is a treacherous one indeed. Knowing that the ego is failing, you seek to inflict a death blow, rendering it forever mute, so that it might trouble you no longer. But you cannot kill the ego, for never has it enjoyed life at all. It was a creation of misperception and it will be dispelled through the Acceptance of Truth, not the condemnation of any form of observance of its illusionary nature. To kill the ego is yet another divergence of the ego, for while you shadowbox with a tireless opponent, the ego is still a recipient of your undivested attention, and that is exactly what the ego wishes to continue. To rail against an illusion is to proceeded under the predicate of its presence and a presumption of its penetrative power, a power given to the ego by you, one that can disrupt your calm and distort your perception until all that is seen is conflict. Such a war will rage endlessly and without any possibility of resolution, for by attempting to conquer the ego, you supply it with the energy it requires to continue engaging with you endlessly. Stop paying any heed to the ego, and it will eventually wander off as a forlorn and deeply fragile child, destitute of its own presumptive destiny, perhaps to perish completely of absolute starvation and abject neglect. It is of no consequence what will be the final undoing of the enormity of misperception that is the ego. That it will dissolve is certain. When you will allow it to be freed from your beliefs in its utility - in any form at all - is not at all certain. That is for you to choose. You do so wisely and solicitously when you use the infinite Power of present moment awareness to allow you to accurately and thoroughly examine what it is that the ego has genuinely been offering you. What does it present that is actually Real? Separation, isolation, desolation and functionality as a final guarantor of destruction - is that what you actually want? Certainly not, from any perspective of rationality. So what Power are we to use to rend the ego inert and impotent, if we cannot cast out that which never genuinely had the ability to hold sway over anything at all? There is a Power that is ultimate above all others, but it is not a force of reckoning or a wide scythe to use in clearing away the high grasses of the ego’s obfuscation. It is the Power of Love, and it Gives - it does not take. Nothing is lost when Love is accepted above all else, and this is the final undoing of the ego’s eternally transactional perspective, for to the ego, all that transpires is a zero sum game of coordination and confiscation, not a process by which that which is offered could be accepted without being lost to the presenter. The ego cannot conceive of any exchange that does not involve loss. Love Knows no exchange within which there is not an eternal process of the expansion of Creation. These perspectives are eternally opposed, yet only one is actually Real. Seek not to kill the ego, for you cannot slay it and it cannot depose you. You cannot lock arms with an entity that has no reality. Look again with the eyes of Love and you will see that nothing need be done - you are asked only to accept that Creation will always expand, and that nothing can ever be lost, no matter what the perspective of separation that the ego has for so longer presented to you as the only possible conclusion that could have any merit at all. Love transcends all other realities, for it has no need for control and so it is Powerful in a manner that will abide all that will occur between now and the final moment when all that is Love Returns to Love, and the great cycle of Creation and renewal expands into new planes of existence which have yet to find any expression at all, at least as of yet.