Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Ego as Story

In Life Therapy your self, your ego, is not an abstract psychological concept. It’s not your psyche. Neither is it your soul or a metaphysical Higher Self. Most important of all, your ego is not a bad thing. It’s not a problem to eliminate. 

Your ego is a narrative. It’s your life-story. You don’t have a life-story. You are a life-story. You have no invisible self apart from your life-story.

You are “live and in progress” right now. You are creating your self, your life-story, with every action you take.

You’re making your self up as you go. Like a musician improvising music never played before or again, you’re improvising your life. Like improvised music, you’re a once-in-forever, here-and-gone, creation in time. 

From this point forward, be aware of your self-as-story.

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