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Originally Posted by Gnosis5
It seems the story (for now) goes this way: There was me, then there was ego and ego decided to split and the split was "win/lose" on the negative side of the pole and "win/win" on the positive side of the pole, but both sides feed ego somehow. I was surprised because I thought win/win was taking one away from ego. Anyways, it's looking now that this polarity needs a little unfixing and an allowance for full expression between the plus and minus ends. Perhaps it was the fixation and compulsion of ego and its concentration on the negative side that gave it a bad name.
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It gets less complicated after a while.
Psychiatrist term ego has a different meaning from spiritual term.
Healthy self esteem is good. Pride in what you do is fine. Any positive emotion is good.
So its not a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water. Having a goal, purpose in life. is great. Incentive positive feed back good. Living life to the full great. Just a question of balance, not getting hung up on anything.
Ch