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cannot avail yourself of MY efforts, which are limitless. T T 1 B 22r T(9)-9-
all illusions, he exerts enormous efforts to establish their validity. The T 1 B 27c T(16)16
this ability by your own efforts, and finally placed them at T 1 B 41j T(46)46
gains this through his own efforts, he will need your help T 1 B 41j T(46)46
The TRULY creative devote their efforts to correcting this. The neurotic T 1 B 41bd T(53)53
Crucifixion. Many Souls offered their efforts on behalf of the Separated T 2 B 43 T(80) 80
and does not involve any efforts on their part at all T 2 B 71 T(88)87
is due to her real efforts at objectivity and fairness. She T 4 C 6 T(199)C 26
create myths, but the creative efforts of man can turn to T 4 C 21 T(204)C 31
am not unmindful of your efforts, but you still have much T 4 E 9 T(215)C 42
B, have not made consistent efforts to change your mind except T 4 E 10 T(215)C 42
was no sense in his efforts, even if he succeeded. The T 4 F 15 T(223)C 50
that it will channelize your efforts automatically. When you make a T 4 F 17 T(224)C 51
conflict free, He maximizes ALL efforts and ALL results. By teaching T 7 D 7 T(312)C 139
8. Join your own efforts to the Power that cannot T 14 B 8 T(542)- 369
of bridging it. His little efforts are powerfully supplemented by the T 16 D 8 T(610)437
you have also made enormous efforts to help Him do His T 17 F 11 T(649)476
you consistently appreciated the GOOD efforts, and OVERLOOKED mistakes? Or hasT 17 F 12 T(649)476
you cannot fail in your efforts to achieve the goal of W 42 L 1 W(70)
than to channelize all your efforts in searching for it where W 71 L 4 W(134)
calling for an answer. Our efforts will be directed toward recognizing W 79 L 9 W(158)
91 L 4. Your efforts, however little they may be W 91 L 4 W(174)
practice period, confident that your efforts, however meager, are fully supportedW 91 L 10 W(176)
necessary that you make excessive efforts to be sure that you W 110 R3 2 W(228)
could be constant in his efforts, or direct his energies and W 186 L 10 W(408)
instead. He will direct your efforts, telling you exactly what to W 361 EP 3 W(619)
given you, and your best efforts meet with lack of appreciation M 16 A 3 M(40)
for you, And join your efforts on behalf of God, Knowing M 30 A 8 M(71)
remedy. To concentrate your healing efforts here is but futility. Who P 3 G 4 P(15)
 
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3 F. Conflict and the Ego (N 339 5:188) T 3 F 0 T(152)151
as the domain of the ego.
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indeed in insisting that the ego is NOT the self, and T 3 F 5 T(153)152
God's. In a sense, the ego was a man-made attempt to T 3 F 5 T(153)152
3 F 6. The ego is the questioning compartment in T 3 F 6 T(153)152
3 F 12. The ego did NOT arise out of T 3 F 12 T(154)153
3 F 14. The ego is as frail as Freud T 3 F 14 T(155)154
Any attempt to endow the ego with the attributes of the T 3 F 14 T(155)154
his Soul or from his ego, precisely as he chooses. If T 4 A 5 T(186)C 13
If he speaks from his ego, he is DISCLAIMING knowledge instead T 4 A 5 T(186)C 13
because he identified with his ego and perceived its weakness. He T 4 A 7 T(186)C 13
view of man which the ego tolerates all too frequently, but T 4 A 8 T(187)?23
are indeed in vain. The ego may will them because the T 4 A 10 T(187)?23
may will them because the ego IS both lean and foolish T 4 A 10 T(187)?23
the foolish journey of the ego in its attempt at reparation T 4 A 10 T(187)?23
Every symptom which the ego has made involves a contradiction T 4 B 2 T(188)C 15
mind is split between the ego and the Soul, so that T 4 B 2 T(188)C 15
Soul, so that WHATEVER the ego makes is incomplete and contradictory T 4 B 2 T(188)C 15
change to enter into your EGO, your SOUL will find peace T 4 B 8 T(189)C 16
reach the Soul from the ego, and nothing FROM the Soul T 4 B 9 T(190)C 17
the Soul can strengthen the ego, or reduce the conflict within T 4 B 9 T(190)C 17
the conflict within it. The ego IS a contradiction. Man's self T 4 B 9 T(190)C 17
Soul cannot perceive, and the ego cannot know. They are therefore T 4 B 9 T(190)C 17
B 10. Nevertheless the ego can learn, because its maker T 4 B 10 T(190)C 17
not be taught, but the ego MUST. The ultimate reason why T 4 B 10 T(190)C 17
relinquishment (NOT destruction) of the ego to the light of the T 4 B 10 T(190)C 17
This is the change the ego MUST fear, because it does T 4 B 10 T(190)C 17
HAVE dreamed of a separated ego, and you HAVE believed in T 4 B 13 T(191)C 18
is IMPOSSIBLE to convince the ego of this, because it goes T 4 B 15 T(191)C 18
is natural enough for the ego to try to protect itself T 4 B 15 T(191)C 18
4 B 16. The ego cannot make this choice because T 4 B 16 T(191)C 18
teacher as merely a larger ego, you WILL be afraid, because T 4 B 16 T(191)C 18
afraid, because to ENLARGE an ego IS to increase separation anxiety T 4 B 16 T(191)C 18
with the effect of HIS ego on OTHER egos, and he T 4 B 17 T(192)C 19
interaction as a means of ego preservation. This is no less T 4 B 17 T(192)C 19
DEBATABLE except in delusions. Your ego is NEVER at stake because T 4 B 21 T(193)C 20
it is misused as an ego involvement. If you become afraid T 4 B 22 T(193)C 20
4 B 23. The ego tries to exploit ALL situations T 4 B 23 T(193)C 20
beyond the reach of your ego, but within easy reach of T 4 B 23 T(193)C 20
pleased. Do not let your ego dispute this, because the ego T 4 B 24 T(193)C 20
ego dispute this, because the ego cannot know what is as T 4 B 24 T(193)C 20
inevitable is fearful to the ego, but joyous to the Soul T 4 B 26 T(194)C 21
4 B 27. The ego is afraid of the Soul's T 4 B 27 T(194)C 21
withdraw all protection from your ego and become totally without investmentT 4 B 27 T(194)C 21
to the Separation, and your ego rejoices when you witness to T 4 B 27 T(194)C 21
4 B 29. The ego has built a shabby and T 4 B 29 T(194)C 21
creating the perishable as your ego is making the eternal. T 4 B 30 T(195)C 22
is a lesson for the ego, not for the Soul. The T 4 B 31 T(195)C 22
I will substitute for your ego if you will, but NEVER T 4 B 33 T(195)C 22
the child's body and his ego, which are very closely associated T 4 B 33 T(195)C 22
chosen, because abnormal psychology IS ego psychology. This is precisely theT 4 B 37 T(196)C 23
never be taught FROM the ego whose abnormality should be lessened T 4 B 37 T(196)C 23
T 4 C. The Ego and False Autonomy (N 439 T 4 C 0 T(197)C 24
could ever have made the ego. This is a perfectly reasonable T 4 C 1 T(197)C 24
confusions. Each man makes one ego for himself, although it is T 4 C 2 T(197)C 24
physical presence. THINKING about another ego is as effective in changing T 4 C 3 T(198)C 25
of the fact that the ego is an idea, though not T 4 C 3 T(198)C 25
mind could have made the ego. You DO have real knowledge T 4 C 3 T(198)C 25
of alternations between Soul and ego, with concomitant variation between peaceT 4 C 5 T(199)C 26
appropriate concreteness perceptually, because her ego is not her natural homeT 4 C 5 T(199)C 26
himself. Man reacts to his ego much as God does to T 4 C 7 T(200)C 27
HOW man responds toward his ego, but only what he believes T 4 C 8 T(200)C 27
ARE regarding it from an ego viewpoint. That is why the T 4 C 8 T(200)C 27
am the teacher of the ego. When teaching is no longer T 4 C 8 T(200)C 27
hint of recognition that the ego is NOT the self. Helen T 4 C 9 T(200)C 27
stronger mechanism in your own ego defense, and that is why T 4 C 10 T(201)C 28
an inescapable law of the ego, which ALWAYS evaluates itself in T 4 C 15 T(202)C 29
Freud was the most accurate ego psychologist we ever had, although T 4 C 15 T(202)C 29
preferred this description himself. His ego was a very weak and T 4 C 15 T(202)C 29
The reality principle of the ego is not real at all T 4 C 16 T(202)C 29
17. Self esteem, in ego terms, means nothing more than T 4 C 17 T(203)C 30
nothing more than that the ego has deluded itself into accepting T 4 C 17 T(203)C 30
delusion of reality of the ego is threatened. This produces either T 4 C 17 T(203)C 30
either withdrawal or attack. The ego literally lives by comparisons. This T 4 C 17 T(203)C 30
4 C 18. The ego NEVER gives out of abundance T 4 C 18 T(203)C 30
appetites are getting mechanisms representing ego needs to confirm itself. ThisT 4 C 18 T(203)C 30
is of the so-called higher ego needs. Bodily appetites are NOT T 4 C 18 T(203)C 30
physical in origin, because the ego regards the body as its T 4 C 18 T(203)C 30
is a decision of the ego, which is completely confused about T 4 C 18 T(203)C 30
31 The ego DOES believe it is completely T 4 C 19 T(204)C 31
feeble show of strength. The ego is free to complete the T 4 C 19 T(204)C 31
premise is its FOUNDATION. The ego IS the belief of the T 4 C 19 T(204)C 31
knowledge is unaware of the ego. It does NOT attack the T 4 C 20 T(204)C 31
It does NOT attack the ego. It merely cannot conceive of T 4 C 20 T(204)C 31
it at all. While the ego is equally unaware of the T 4 C 20 T(204)C 31
This is way self-esteem in ego terms MUST be a delusion T 4 C 20 T(204)C 31
are usually related to the ego origins, and magic to the T 4 C 21 T(205)C 32
to the powers which the ego ascribes to itself. Every mythological T 4 C 21 T(205)C 32
because nobody maintains that the ego existed before that point in T 4 C 22 T(205)C 32
that wrong-mindedness is obliterated. The ego cannot survive without judgment, andT 4 C 23 T(205)C 32
meaningful perception, as far as ego thinking goes. However, VALID behaviorT 4 C 24 T(206)C 33
EVERY idea which the ego has accorded the status of T 4 C 26 T(206)C 33
are concentrating increasingly on the ego, in an attempt to unify T 4 C 26 T(207)C 34
We have already credited the ego with considerable ingenuity, though not T 4 C 27 T(207)C 34
is NOT understandable to the ego, which interprets it as if T 4 D 1 T(208)C 35
the Soul, not from the Ego, and the Christ Mind IS T 4 D 2 T(208)C 35
ceased to create because your ego has set you on the T 4 D 3 T(208)C 35
fatherless than you are. Your ego and your Soul will never T 4 D 3 T(208)C 35
and perfectly protected, and the ego will not prevail against it T 4 D 3 T(208)C 35
its characteristic upside-down way, the ego has taken the impulses from T 4 D 5 T(208)C 35
arise in the unconscious. The ego judges what is to be T 4 D 5 T(208)C 35
to the unexistence of the ego itself.
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36 The ego therefore experiences threat, and not T 4 D 5 T(209)C 36
BOTH are threatening to the ego and, being concerned primarily with T 4 D 6 T(209)C 36
really much greater to the ego, because the pull of God T 4 D 6 T(209)C 36
them as the same, the ego attempts to save itself from T 4 D 7 T(209)C 36
and fear is unconscious. The ego cannot tolerate either and represses T 4 D 7 T(209)C 36
break through the barriers the ego has set up and shine T 4 D 8 T(209)C 36
Against our united strength, the ego CANNOT prevail. T 4 T 4 D 8 T(209)C 36
you by now why the ego regards the Soul as its T 4 D 9 T(209)C 36
Soul as its enemy. The ego arose from the Separation, and T 4 D 9 T(209)C 36
impulses to the unconscious, the ego has to offer you some T 4 D 9 T(210)C 37
ever fully believe in the ego again. How can its meager T 4 D 10 T(210)C 37
denial of the Father, the ego has no allegiance to its T 4 D 11 T(210)C 37
this ambivalence, and since no ego has experienced love WITHOUT ambivalenceT 4 D 12 T(210)C 37
so different from anything the ego can offer that you will T 4 D 13 T(211)C 38
not the condition as the ego sets conditions. It is the T 4 D 14 T(211)C 38
unconscious, deeply repressed by the ego, is the declaration of your T 4 D 21 T(213)C 40
fact which MEANS that the ego does not exist, and which T 4 D 21 T(213)C 40
of the mind which the ego rules. The ego is desperate T 4 D 22 T(213)C 40
which the ego rules. The ego is desperate because it opposes T 4 D 22 T(213)C 40
to exert to protect your ego, and how little you have T 4 D 22 T(213)C 40
to the voice of your ego is demonstrated by your attitudes T 4 E 1 T(213)C 40
The glass in which the ego seeks to see its face T 4 E 2 T(214)C 41
and are perceiving images your ego makes in a darkened glass T 4 E 4 T(214)C 41
thinking otherwise has held your ego together, but has literally split T 4 E 5 T(214)C 41
from the capriciousness of the ego, and NEED NOT BE. You T 4 E 7 T(215)C 42
feel guilty, KNOW that your ego has indeed violated the laws T 4 E 8 T(215)C 42
Leave the sins of the ego to me. That is what T 4 E 8 T(215)C 42
your mind about those your ego has hurt, the Atonement cannot T 4 E 8 T(215)C 42
as you feel guilty, your ego is in command, because only T 4 E 8 T(215)C 42
in command, because only the ego CAN experience guilt. THIS NEED T 4 E 8 T(215)C 42
trying to see whom your ego has hurt, and also in T 4 E 9 T(215)C 42
much energy invested in your ego. THIS NEED NOT BE. Watch T 4 E 9 T(215)C 42
for the temptations of the ego, and do not be deceived T 4 E 9 T(215)C 42
anxiety through disinterest. Because your ego WAS protected by this unfortunateT 4 E 10 T(215)C 42
against the demands of your ego that you disengage yourself. THIS T 4 E 11 T(216)C 43
to me, but only the ego can be disheartened. T T 4 E 12 T(216)C 43
can unite in shining your ego away, and releasing the strength T 4 E 13 T(216)C 43
hurt or to heal. The ego SHOULD be brought to your T 4 E 14 T(216)C 43
E 15. Judge your ego truly, and you MUST withdraw T 4 E 15 T(217)C 44
MUST shine THROUGH you. Your ego cannot prevent HIM from shining T 4 E 16 T(217)C 44
or awake, (just as your ego does with your lower mind T 4 E 20 T(218)C 45
central factor in what the ego permits into consciousness, and one T 4 F 1 T(219)C 46
4 F 2. The ego is further off balance by T 4 F 2 T(219)C 46
MUST be obliterated by the ego in the interest of its T 4 F 2 T(219)C 46
state is ESSENTIAL to the ego, which judges ONLY in terms T 4 F 3 T(219)C 46
then, makes SOME sense in ego terms. But fear of the T 4 F 4 T(219)C 46
the body, with which the ego identifies so closely, is more T 4 F 4 T(219)C 46
it sponsors eagerly. Yet the ego hates the body, because it T 4 F 5 T(220)C 47
dazed. Being told by the ego that it is really part T 4 F 5 T(220)C 47
for protection?, to which the ego replies, Turn to me. The T 4 F 6 T(220)C 47
not without cause, reminds the ego that it has itself insisted T 4 F 6 T(220)C 47
to it for protection. The ego has no real answer to T 4 F 6 T(220)C 47
value will not last. The ego thinks it is an advantage T 4 F 12 T(223)C 50
the one function that the ego has tried to develop, but T 4 F 13 T(223)C 50
to learn that had the ego willed to do so, it T 4 F 13 T(223)C 50
do it is what the ego cannot tolerate. That is because T 4 F 13 T(223)C 50
state of clarity which the ego, fearful of being judged truly T 4 F 13 T(223)C 50
than the dilemma itself. The ego has reacted characteristically here as T 4 F 14 T(223)C 50
much as of validity. The ego compromises with the issue of T 4 F 14 T(223)C 50
even if he succeeded. The ego has also countenanced some strange T 4 F 15 T(223)C 50
of solution are another favorite ego device for impeding the strong-willedT 4 F 16 T(223)C 50
which the ego can tolerate, is among its T 4 F 16 T(224)C 51
position to realize that the ego is capable of making and T 4 F 18 T(224)C 51
relatively minor confusions of the ego are not among its more T 4 F 19 T(224)C 51
not dangerous except to the ego. Vaguely the ego senses threat T 4 G 5 T(225)C 52
to the ego. Vaguely the ego senses threat, and, being unable T 4 G 5 T(225)C 52
scarcity concept, and this the ego understands well. Regarding all as T 4 G 5 T(225)C 52
remember always is that the ego DOES NOT RECOGNIZE the real T 4 G 6 T(225)C 52
YOU associate yourself WITH the ego, YOU do not perceive the T 4 G 6 T(225)C 52
allegiance to it gives the ego ANY power over you. We T 4 G 6 T(225)C 52
We have spoken of the ego as if it were a T 4 G 6 T(225)C 52
4 G 7. The ego is nothing more than a T 4 G 7 T(225)C 52
disaster needs much conditioning. The ego cannot withstand the conditioning processT 4 G 10 T(226)C 53
YOU and NOT by your ego, the recognition ITSELF establishes that T 4 G 12 T(226)C 53
establishes that you and your ego CANNOT be identical. You may T 4 G 12 T(226)C 53
idea of escaping FROM the ego shows this.
T 4 G 12 T(226)C 53
You cannot escape from the ego by humbling it, or controlling T 4 G 13 T(227)C 54
it, or punishing it. The ego and the Soul DO NOT T 4 G 13 T(227)C 54
natural impulses, not because the EGO is a separate thing, but T 4 G 13 T(227)C 54
believe that YOU are. The ego is a device for maintaining T 4 G 13 T(227)C 54
that You are NOT an ego. I repeat that I do T 4 G 14 T(227)C 54
to associate misery with the ego, and joy with your Soul T 4 G 24 T(229)C 56
WANT the rewards of the ego in the presence of the T 4 G 24 T(229)C 56
part that believes in the ego, because the ego DEPENDS on T 4 H 2 T(229)C 56
in the ego, because the ego DEPENDS on the specific. It T 4 H 2 T(229)C 56
you are SEPARATE. Everything the ego perceives is a separate whole T 4 H 2 T(229)C 56
relationships that imply BEING. The ego is thus AGAINST communication, exceptT 4 H 2 T(229)C 56
The communication system of the ego is based on its own T 4 H 3 T(229)C 56
classified (or judged) by the ego as coercive communication which must T 4 H 3 T(229)C 56
He is. He has no ego with which to accept T 4 H 9 T(230)C 57
the vocational orientation stresses the ego. The team approach generally leadsT 4 I 1 T(231)C 58
of broken bodies, because your ego cannot tolerate them. You ego T 4 I 3 T(232)C 59
ego cannot tolerate them. You ego cannot tolerate ego-weakness, either, withoutT 4 I 3 T(232)C 59
of a broken body. Your ego is threatened, and blocks your T 4 I 4 T(232)C 59
You withdraw to allow your ego to recover, and to regain T 4 I 4 T(232)C 59
enough NOT to threaten your ego, but also too limited to T 4 I 4 T(232)C 59
looked down on by the ego, because of its belief that T 4 I 5 T(232)C 59
attitudes to those whom their ego perceive as weakened and damaged T 4 I 7 T(232)C 59
the false association which the ego has made between giving and T 5 B 4 T(234) C 61
time. When man made the ego, God placed in him the T 5 C 10 T(237)C 64
is so strong that the ego always dissolves at its sound T 5 C 10 T(237)C 64
look at you through HIS ego, or perceive YOUR ego in T 5 E 5 T(242)C 69
HIS ego, or perceive YOUR ego in you. State positively, he T 5 E 5 T(242)C 69
an ego-alien journey WITH THE EGO AS GUIDE. This was BOUND T 5 E 6 T(242)C 69
Delay is of the ego, because time is ITS concept T 5 E 7 T(243)C 70
is God's answer to the ego. Everything of which the Holy T 5 E 7 T(243)C 70
task of UNDOING what the ego has made. It must undo T 5 E 7 T(243)C 70
of discourse in which the ego itself operates, or the mind T 5 E 7 T(243)C 70
So it is with the ego and the soul, and with T 5 E 7 T(243)C 70
is a belief of the ego, so the lower mind, which T 5 E 8 T(243)C 70
not mean anything to the ego. It interprets it, at best T 5 E 8 T(243)C 70
between the interpretations of the ego and the knowledge of the T 5 E 9 T(243)C 70
function of RE-INTERPRETING what the ego makes, not by destruction, but T 5 E 10 T(244)C 71
This vision invariably frightens the ego, because it is so calm T 5 E 11 T(244)C 71
guarantee of its survival. The ego becomes strong in strife because T 5 E 11 T(244)C 71
IS an appeal to the ego. T 5 E 12 T 5 E 11 T(244)C 71
is as vigilant as the ego to the call of danger T 5 E 12 T(244)C 71
ITS strength just as the ego WELCOMES it with all its T 5 E 12 T(244)C 71
MIND OF THE GIVER. The ego is the symbol of the T 5 E 13 T(245)C 72
still much stronger than the ego, even though the ego does T 5 E 14 T(245)C 72
the ego, even though the ego does not recognize it. The T 5 E 14 T(245)C 72
home only in eternity. The ego made the world as IT T 5 E 15 T(245)C 72
the RE-interpreter of what the ego made, sees it only as T 5 E 15 T(245)C 72
CANNOT be protected. What the ego makes it KEEPS TO ITSELF T 5 F 5 T(248)C 75
are a device of the ego for atoning without sharing, and T 5 F 6 T(249)C 76
for pardon without change. The ego NEVER calls for real atonement T 5 F 6 T(249)C 76
limited to the self the ego sees. Every loving thought held T 5 F 9 T(249)C 76
creating, and also YOURS. Your ego can keep you in exile T 5 F 9 T(250)C 77
them, without interference by the ego, so we can clarify an T 5 F 10 T(250)C 77
78 The ego cannot prevail against the Kingdom T 5 F 12 T(251)C 78
it is united, and the ego fades away and is undone T 5 F 12 T(251)C 78
of guilt is clarified. The ego has a purpose, just as T 5 G 1 T(254)C 81
makes it invulnerable to the ego, because its peace is unassailable T 5 G 2 T(254)C 81
law of division. If the ego is the symbol of the T 5 G 3 T(254)C 81
meaningless concept EXCEPT to the ego, but do not underestimate the T 5 G 3 T(254)C 81
5 G 4. The ego IS the part of the T 5 G 4 T(255)C 82
of USURPING His power. The ego believes that this is what T 5 G 4 T(255)C 82
if you identify WITH the ego, you MUST perceive yourself as T 5 G 4 T(255)C 82
Whenever you respond to your ego, you WILL experience guilt, and T 5 G 5 T(255)C 82
you WILL fear punishment. The ego is quite literally a fearful T 5 G 5 T(255)C 82
mind, never forget that the ego is NOT SANE. It REPRESENTS T 5 G 5 T(255)C 82
If you enthrone the ego in it, the fact that T 5 G 7 T(256)C 83
5 G 8. The ego does not perceive sin as T 5 G 8 T(256)C 83
you will also succeed. The ego regards this as doom, but T 5 G 8 T(256)C 83
form of magical SOLUTION. The ego believes that by punishing ITSELF T 5 G 9 T(256)C 83
5 G 10. The ego cannot OPPOSE the laws of T 5 G 10 T(257)C 84
The Holy Spirit, like the ego, is a decision. Together they T 5 G 11 T(257)C 84
CAN accept and obey. The ego and the Holy Spirit are T 5 G 11 T(257)C 84
or almost simultaneously, for the ego always speaks first. Alternate interpretationsT 5 H 5 T(260)C 87
itself was unnecessary before the ego was made. The ego speaks T 5 H 5 T(260)C 87
the ego was made. The ego speaks in judgment, and the T 5 H 5 T(260)C 87
a fearful thing to the ego, because of its prejudiced judgment T 5 H 6 T(260)C 87
have mislead you. A favorite ego quotation is As ye sow T 5 H 7 T(261)C 88
generation, as interpreted by the ego, is particularly vicious. It is T 5 H 10 T(261)C 88
undone is fearful to the ego, which interprets I am undone T 5 H 11 T(262)C 89
as I am destroyed. The ego will NOT be destroyed, because T 5 H 11 T(262)C 89
you have given TO the ego will merely return to the T 5 H 12 T(262)C 89
your whole mind BELONGS. The ego is a form of ARREST T 5 H 12 T(262)C 89
police at all, although the ego welcomes that interpretation. You CAN T 5 H 12 T(262)C 89
assault, as judged by the ego, did not matter. As the T 6 B 10 T(274)C 101
symbol of conflict between the ego and the Son of God T 6 B 19 T(277)C 104
solely a device of the ego to make you feel DIFFERENT T 6 C 3 T(278)C 105
and separated FROM them. The ego justifies this on the wholly T 6 C 3 T(278)C 105
without projection is impossible. The ego uses projection ONLY to distort T 6 C 4 T(278)C 105
projection. Every ability of the ego has a better counterpart, because T 6 C 5 T(278)C 105
Spirit, as well as the ego, utilizes projection but since their T 6 C 5 T(278)C 105
6 C 8. The ego prefers to believe that parallel T 6 C 8 T(279)C 106
the separation NEVER OCCURRED. The ego CANNOT prevail against this, becauseT 6 C 11 T(280)C 107
an explicit statement that the EGO never occurred. T 6 T 6 C 11 T(280)C 107
6 C 12. The ego can accept the idea that T 6 C 12 T(280)C 107
it is very simple. The ego projects to EXCLUDE and therefore T 6 C 14 T(281)C 108
perceive Him at all. The ego is legion, but the Holy T 6 C 15 T(281)C 108
correct here, even though the ego does NOT know, and is T 6 D 2 T(282)C 109
can never be defiled. The ego never was and never will T 6 D 2 T(282)C 109
3. But through the ego you CAN hear and learn T 6 D 3 T(282)C 109
the opposite of EVERYTHING THE EGO BELIEVES. This is how YOU T 6 D 6 T(283)C 110
ANSWER, not the question. The ego always speaks first, because it T 6 E 1 T(284)C 111
longer need His guidance. The ego does NOT regard itself as T 6 E 1 T(284)C 111
impossible. But YOU made the ego without love, and so it T 6 E 2 T(284)C 111
WITHOUT it. This enables the ego to regard itself as SEPARATE T 6 E 2 T(284)C 111
6 E 3. The ego, then, raised the first question T 6 E 3 T(284)C 111
the beginning of doubt. The ego has never answered ANY questions T 6 E 3 T(284)C 111
most inventive activities of the ego have never done more than T 6 E 3 T(284)C 111
HAVE the answer, and THE EGO IS AFRAID OF YOU. You T 6 E 3 T(284)C 111
one basic fact that the ego does not know. The Holy T 6 E 3 T(284)C 111
6 E 4. The ego cannot hear the Holy Spirit T 6 E 4 T(285)C 112
for ATTACKING its maker. The ego believes that the best defense T 6 E 4 T(285)C 112
side with it. And the ego feels badly in need of T 6 E 4 T(285)C 112
itself in your MIND, the ego turns to the body, NOT T 6 E 5 T(285)C 112
an alliance OF fear. The ego and the body conspire AGAINST T 6 E 5 T(285)C 112
what it really involves. The ego, which is not real, attempts T 6 E 5 T(285)C 112
ALL the questions which the ego raises. You are a Child T 6 E 6 T(285)C 112
kind of reasoning that the ego engages in, but God, who T 6 E 12 T(288)C 115
When your body and your ego and your dreams are gone T 6 F 7 T(290)C 117
other impossible solution which the ego attempts, IT WILL NOT WORK T 6 F 7 T(290)C 117
always, it re-interprets what the ego uses as an argument FOR T 6 F 8 T(290)C 117
LOSE WHAT YOU COMMUNICATE. The ego uses the body for attack T 6 F 12 T(291)118
Still strongly aware of the ego in himself, and responding primarily T 6 G 4 T(294)121
and responding primarily TO the ego in others, he is being T 6 G 4 T(294)121
upside-down as always, the ego perceives the first lesson as T 6 G 5 T(294)121
only ONE is REAL. The ego tries to persuade you that T 6 G 8 T(295)122
the Holy Spirit REJECTS the ego ACCEPTS. This is because they T 6 H 2 T(298)C 125
be as vigilant AGAINST the ego as FOR it. This lesson T 6 H 5 T(299)C 126
vigilant ON GOD's BEHALF. The ego speaks AGAINST His Creation, and T 6 H 10 T(301)128
7 B 1. The ego demands RECIPROCAL rights, because it T 7 B 1 T(304)C 131
The term intraPERSONAL is an ego term, because personal implies of T 7 C 5 T(307)C 134
because abilities began with the ego, which perceived them as a T 7 D 4 T(311)C 138
EXCELLING. This is how the ego STILL perceives them and uses T 7 D 4 T(311)C 138
YOU to use what the ego has made to TEACH the T 7 D 4 T(311)C 138
the opposite of what the ego has LEARNED. The KIND of T 7 D 4 T(311)C 138
learned THIS course. To the ego there appears to be no T 7 D 7 T(312)C 139
be no connection, because the EGO is discontinuous. But the Holy T 7 D 7 T(312)C 139
UNREAL. This is WHY the ego is insane; it teaches that T 7 E 1 T(312)C 139
AS WELL, even though the ego DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IT T 7 E 1 T(312)C 139
7 E 2. The ego, then, IS always being undone T 7 E 2 T(313)C 140
unified in allegiance to the ego, because the mind does NOT T 7 E 2 T(313)C 140
what is treacherous to the ego IS faithful to peace. The T 7 E 2 T(313)C 140
but that is because the ego perceives itself as at war T 7 E 2 T(313)C 140
be the voice of the ego. T 7 E 8 T 7 E 7 T(315)C 142
FORGETTING the laws of the ego. We said before that forgetting T 7 E 9 T(316)C 143
the way in which the ego tries to use ALL abilities T 7 E 10 T(316)C 143
or to ANY extent. The ego ALWAYS seeks to divide and T 7 E 11 T(316)C 143
but a real delusion. The ego believes that it HAS this T 7 E 12 T(317)C 144
sense of danger that the ego has induced in YOU by T 7 E 13 T(317)C 144
ONLY minds communicate. Since the ego CANNOT obliterate the impulse to T 7 F 2 T(318)C 145
NOT NEED THE MIND. The ego, then, tries to teach you T 7 F 2 T(318)C 145
in the service of the ego can hurt other BODIES, but T 7 F 3 T(319)C 146
be trying to strengthen his ego, HE IS ALSO TRYING TO T 7 F 5 T(319)C 146
as you learn through the ego. This DOES place you in T 7 F 10 T(321)C 148
him undo the change his ego thinks it has made in T 7 F 11 T(321)C 148
7 F 12. The ego is totally unable to understand T 7 F 12 T(322)C 149
create depending on whether the ego or the Holy Spirit begets T 7 G 1 T(324)C 151
The ingeniousness of the ego to preserve itself is enormous T 7 G 3 T(325)C 152
of the mind WHICH THE EGO DENIES. This means that the T 7 G 3 T(325)C 152
DENIES. This means that the ego attacks WHAT IS PRESERVING IT T 7 G 3 T(325)C 152
logical, though clearly insane. The ego draws upon the one source T 7 G 3 T(325)C 152
logical but still insane, the ego resolves this completely insane dilemma T 7 G 4 T(325)C 152
know your OWN safety. The ego CANNOT AFFORD TO KNOW ANYTHING T 7 G 4 T(325)C 152
Knowledge is total, and the ego DOES NOT BELIEVE IN TOTALITY T 7 G 4 T(325)C 152
own origin, and while the ego does not love YOU, it T 7 G 4 T(325)C 152
produced. Produced by fear, the ego REproduces fear. This IS its T 7 G 5 T(325)C 152
IS your power, which the ego MUST deny. It must also T 7 G 5 T(325)C 152
who has everything WANTS the ego. Its own maker, then, DOES T 7 G 5 T(325)C 152
the only decision which the ego could POSSIBLY encounter if the T 7 G 5 T(325)C 152
7 G 6. The ego therefore opposes ALL appreciation, ALL T 7 G 6 T(326)C 153
have repeatedly emphasized that the ego DOES believe it can attack T 7 G 9 T(327)C 154
the mind CANNOT attack, the ego proceeds perfectly logically to the T 7 G 9 T(327)C 154
Aware of its weakness, the ego wants your allegiance, but NOT T 7 G 9 T(327)C 154
as you really are. The ego therefore wants to engage your T 7 G 9 T(327)C 154
7 G 10. The ego wants no part of truth T 7 G 10 T(327)C 154
TO YOU TO DECIDE. The ego believes THIS totally, being fully T 7 G 11 T(328)C 155
it is NOT TRUE. The ego is therefore totally committed to T 7 G 11 T(328)C 155
all the world of the ego is. NOTHING. It has no T 7 G 13 T(328)C 155
gifts you offer to the ego are ALWAYS experienced as sacrifices T 7 H 12 T(334)C 161
mind of God. To the ego, the law is perceived as T 7 I 1 T(335)C 162
law of extension. To the ego, it is the law of T 7 I 2 T(335)C 162
7 I 3. The ego ALWAYS tries to preserve conflict T 7 I 3 T(335)C 162
up and free YOURSELF. The ego, using its own warped version T 7 I 3 T(335)C 162
those who project from the ego are vigilant for their OWN T 7 I 6 T(336)C 163
CAN, a fallacy which the ego ALWAYS makes, underlies its whole T 7 I 7 T(336)C 163
it is a BELIEF. The ego IS therefore a confusion in T 7 I 7 T(336)C 163
NOT BE AFRAID OF THE EGO. It DOES depend on your T 7 I 8 T(336)C 163
7 I 9. The ego can be completely forgotten at T 7 I 9 T(337)C 164
more you learn ABOUT the ego, the more you realize that T 7 I 9 T(337)C 164
to teach you that the ego is unbelievable and will forever T 7 I 10 T(337)C 164
unbelievable. You who made the ego by BELIEVING the unbelievable CANNOT T 7 I 10 T(337)C 164
God. Selfishness is of the ego but self-fullness is of the T 7 J 2 T(337)C 164
mind that lies between the ego and the Soul, mediating between T 7 J 2 T(337)C 164
OF THE SOUL. To the ego this is partiality, and it T 7 J 2 T(337)C 164
7 J 3. The ego cannot prevail against a totality T 7 J 3 T(338)C 165
you IS painful to the ego, and as long as you T 7 K 2 T(341)C 168
WILL be giving up the ego, but you will be SACRIFICING T 7 K 2 T(341)C 168
not mean anything, because the ego wishes for the impossible. You T 7 K 3 T(341)C 168
asks for sacrifice, but the ego ALWAYS does. When you are T 7 K 4 T(342)C 169
false decision-making prerogative, which the ego guards so jealously, is notT 7 K 7 T(343)C 170
EVERYTHING. This is because the ego perceives nothing as wholly desirable T 7 L 1 T(343)C 170
away so readily, when the ego asks for your allegiance. T 8 A 2 T(346)C 173
The distraction of the ego SEEMS to interfere with your T 8 A 3 T(346)C 173
hallucination. You cannot expect the EGO to say I am not T 8 A 3 T(346)C 173
you. Every response to the ego is a call to war T 8 A 3 T(346)C 173
learn it of Him. The ego does NOT KNOW WHAT IT T 8 C 1 T(348)C 175
are WITHOUT KNOWING IT. The ego is expert ONLY in confusion T 8 C 1 T(348)C 175
could learn nothing from the ego, because the ego KNOWS nothing T 8 C 2 T(348)C 175
from the ego, because the ego KNOWS nothing. Is there ANY T 8 C 2 T(348)C 175
turn to find HIMSELF? The ego has never given you a T 8 C 2 T(348)C 175
C 3. But the ego has done more harm to T 8 C 3 T(349)C 176
CANNOT go AGAINST it. The ego cannot teach you anything as T 8 C 3 T(349)C 176
That is why the ego IS the denial of free T 8 C 4 T(349)C 176
the UNdoing of EVERYTHING the ego tries to teach. It is T 8 C 4 T(349)C 176
8 C 5. The ego wants to teach you that T 8 C 5 T(349)C 176
BECAUSE they are yours. The ego tries to find them in T 8 D 6 T(352)C 179
you CANNOT listen to the ego. Its purpose is to DEFEAT T 8 D 8 T(352)C 179
to look at what the ego has made of YOU. T 8 D 8 T(352)C 179
be excluded from them. The ego teaches that your strength is T 8 D 9 T(353)C 180
you are uniting WITHOUT the ego, because I have renounced the T 8 E 19 T(358)C 185
because I have renounced the ego in myself, and therefore CANNOT T 8 E 19 T(358)C 185
the way to renounce the ego in YOURSELVES. The truth in T 8 E 19 T(358)C 185
of us is BEYOND the ego. By willing that, you HAVE T 8 E 19 T(358)C 185
Our success in transcending the ego is guaranteed by God, and T 8 E 20 T(358)C 185
it is ALWAYS because the ego has attempted to JOIN the T 8 E 21 T(358)C 185
your companion INSTEAD of your ego. Do not try to hold T 8 E 21 T(359)C 186
of us. Never accord the ego the power to interfere with T 8 E 22 T(359)C 186
beyond all attempts of the ego to hold you back. T 8 E 22 T(359)C 186
because I AM beyond the ego. Reach therefore for my hand T 8 E 23 T(359)C 186
you WANT to transcend the ego. My will, will NEVER be T 8 E 23 T(359)C 186
8 G 3. The ego SEPARATES through the body. The T 8 G 3 T(363)C 190
Guided by the ego, it IS. Guided by the T 8 G 10 T(366)C 193
Him replaces devotion to the ego. In this sense the body T 8 G 10 T(366)C 193
what it IS. To the ego, the body IS TO ATTACK T 8 H 1 T(369)C 196
health and sickness possible. The ego makes a fundamental confusion betweenT 8 H 3 T(370)C 197
of every end that the ego has accepted as its own T 8 H 3 T(370)C 197
YOU. This is why the ego is forced to shift from T 8 H 3 T(370)C 197
ATTACK AS AN END. The ego has a REAL INVESTMENT IN T 8 H 4 T(370)C 197
follows: Those who WANT the ego are predisposed to defend it T 8 H 5 T(371)C 198
suspect from the beginning. The ego does not call upon witnesses T 8 H 5 T(371)C 198
perfectly equipped to fulfill. The ego, as a judge, gives anything T 8 H 5 T(371)C 198
impartial trial (judgment.) When the ego calls on a witness, it T 8 H 5 T(371)C 198
is NOT an end. The ego, however, establishes it AS an T 8 H 5 T(371)C 198
the purpose of everything the ego does. Its sole aim is T 8 H 6 T(371)C 198
depend on external guidance. The ego uses this as its best T 8 H 6 T(371)C 198
NOT KNOW THE ANSWER. The ego is INCAPABLE of knowing how T 8 H 8 T(372)C 199
When we said that the ego DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING, we T 8 H 8 T(372)C 199
the one thing about the ego that is wholly true. But T 8 H 8 T(372)C 199
knowledge is being, and the ego has no knowledge, then the T 8 H 8 T(372)C 199
has no knowledge, then the ego HAS NO BEING. T T 8 H 8 T(372)C 199
When YOU lay the ego aside it will be gone T 8 H 10 T(372)C 199
answer to everything IS. The ego does not know what a T 8 I 1 T(373)C 200
question the value of the ego and thus establish your ability T 8 I 1 T(373)C 200
EVALUATE its questions. When the ego tempts you to sickness, do T 8 I 1 T(373)C 200
8 I 6. The ego, which always WEAKENS the will T 8 I 6 T(375)C 202
to DESTROY it. But the ego actually believes that it is T 8 I 6 T(375)C 202
of what God Created. The ego DESPISES weakness, even though it T 8 I 6 T(375)C 202
WHAT IT HATES. To the ego this is perfectly sensible. Believing T 8 I 6 T(375)C 202
and that is why the ego is against you. What seems T 8 J 1 T(377)C 204
desire which stems from the ego IS a desire for nothing T 8 J 11 T(380)C 207
aware only of MEANING. The ego cannot ask the Holy Spirit T 8 J 11 T(380)C 207
The alertness of the ego to the errors which other T 9 A 1 T(386)213
sense at all. To the ego, it is kind and right T 9 A 1 T(386)213
makes PERFECT sense to the ego, which is TOTALLY unaware of T 9 A 1 T(386)213
2. Errors ARE the ego, and CORRECTION of errors of T 9 A 2 T(386)213
in the RELINQUISHMENT of the ego. When you CORRECT a brother T 9 A 2 T(386)213
he is speaking from the ego, he WILL be making no T 9 A 2 T(386)213
a Son of God. His ego is ALWAYS wrong, no matter T 9 A 2 T(386)213
out the errors of HIS ego, you MUST be seeing him T 9 A 3 T(386)213
communication AT ALL between the ego and the Holy Spirit. The T 9 A 3 T(386)213
and the Holy Spirit. The ego makes NO sense, and the T 9 A 3 T(386)213
you are listening to YOUR ego, and making as little sense T 9 B 1 T(386)213
be the arrogance of the ego. Correction is of God, Who T 9 B 5 T(387)214
through the eyes of the ego, or you will judge them T 9 C 3 T(388)215
9 C 4. The ego has a plan of forgiveness T 9 C 4 T(389)216
impossible situation, to which the ego ALWAYS leads you. Its plan T 9 C 4 T(389)216
This is where the ego is forced into appealing to T 9 C 5 T(389)216
RESPECTS, He teaches that the ego does not exist, and PROVES T 9 C 6 T(389)216
is so typical of the ego, that you should be quite T 9 C 7 T(390)217
with it by now. The ego believes that ALL functions belong T 9 C 7 T(390)217
makes it likely that the ego will attack anyone and anything T 9 C 7 T(390)217
reactions, whether they place the ego in a very sound position T 9 C 8 T(390)217
Standard as I have. The ego literally lives on borrowed time T 9 C 9 T(390)217
of fantasy are of the ego, and of THESE you will T 9 C 11 T(391)218
and IS therefore of the ego. Let us consider the unhealed T 9 D 1 T(392)219
stated that beliefs of the ego CANNOT be shared, and THIS T 9 D 2 T(392)219
merely to IDENTIFY with the ego, and by perceiving clearly what T 9 D 3 T(392)219
how can this build up ego STRENGTH? These perfectly self-evident inconsistenciesT 9 D 5 T(393)220
HIS OWN TEACHING. BECAUSE his ego is involved, it ALWAYS attempts T 9 D 6 T(393)220
impossible situation to which the ego ALWAYS leads. T 9 T 9 D 8 T(394)221
overlooked. That is because the ego is AFRAID of the obvious T 9 F 3 T(399)- 226
9 F 4. The ego is also in your mind T 9 F 4 T(399)- 226
the Holy Spirit's, because the ego does NOT love you. It T 9 F 4 T(399)- 226
perceptions are so shifting. The ego is therefore capable of suspiciousnessT 9 F 4 T(399)- 226
forgets what you are. The ego is deceived by EVERYTHING you T 9 F 5 T(399)- 226
times ITS CONFUSION INCREASES. The ego is, therefore, particularly likely toT 9 F 5 T(399)- 226
9 F 6. The ego will begin to ATTACK your T 9 F 6 T(399)- 226
Would you look to the ego to help you escape from T 9 F 7 T(400)- 227
We said before that the ego does not know what a T 9 F 8 T(400)- 227
me. Remember this when the ego speaks, and you will not T 9 F 10 T(401)228
however dimly, you abandon the ego automatically, because in the presence T 9 G 1 T(401)228
God, the meaninglessness of the ego becomes perfectly apparent. Though it T 9 G 1 T(401)228
does not understand this, the ego believes that its enemy has T 9 G 1 T(401)228
make. The grandiosity of the ego is its alternative to the T 9 G 1 T(401)228
We said before that the ego vacillates between suspiciousness and viciousnessT 9 G 2 T(401)228
9 G 3. The ego does not know the difference T 9 G 3 T(402)229
We once said that the ego IS aware of threat, but T 9 G 3 T(402)229
T 9 G 4. The ego is immobilized in the presence T 9 G 4 T(402)229
your reality literally drives the ego from your mind, because of T 9 G 4 T(402)229
YOU DO NOT ALLOW THE EGO TO ATTACK IT. T T 9 G 4 T(402)229
9 G 5. The ego will make every effort to T 9 G 5 T(402)229
and you WILL attack. The ego depends SOLELY on your willingness T 9 G 6 T(402)229
therefore you CANNOT want the ego. Your grandeur is God's ANSWER T 9 G 6 T(402)229
is God's ANSWER to the ego, because it is true. T 9 G 6 T(402)229
that is exactly what the ego DOES perceive in a Son T 9 I 11 T(410)- 237
CHAPTER 10 GOD AND THE EGO T 10 A. Introduction T 10 0 0 T(419)- 246
Either God or the ego is insane. If you will T 10 A 1 T(419)- 246
true. Neither God nor the ego proposes a partial thought system T 10 A 1 T(419)- 246
conflict? If YOU made the ego, how can the ego have T 10 A 2 T(419)- 246
the ego, how can the ego have made YOU? The authority T 10 A 2 T(419)- 246
of perceived conflict, because the ego was MADE out of the T 10 A 2 T(419)- 246
Son to father HIM. The ego, then, is nothing more than T 10 A 2 T(419)- 246
with perfect honesty, but the ego never looks upon what it T 10 A 2 T(419)- 246
thought system. And either the ego, which you made, IS your T 10 A 2 T(419)- 246
WILL. The projection of the ego makes it appear as if T 10 B 11 T(423)250
Whenever you ask the ego to enter, you lessen His T 10 C 7 T(426)253
you be hostage to the ego or host to God? You T 10 C 9 T(426)253
without your invitation, and the ego is nothing, whether you invite T 10 C 9 T(426)253
KNOW yourself, for ONLY THE EGO BLAMES AT ALL. Self-blame is T 10 E 6 T(431)258
AT ALL. Self-blame is therefore ego identification, and as strong an T 10 E 6 T(431)258
identification, and as strong an ego defense as blaming others. YOU T 10 E 6 T(431)258
F. The Dynamics of the Ego (N 952 8:56) T 10 F 0 T(433) 260
truth. The dynamics of the ego will be our lesson for T 10 F 1 T(433) 260
us begin this lesson in ego dynamics, by understanding that the T 10 F 3 T(433) 260
in the belief that the ego HAS the power to do T 10 F 3 T(433) 260
10 F 4. The ego is fearful BECAUSE you believe T 10 F 4 T(433) 260
When we look at the ego, then, we are NOT considering T 10 F 4 T(433) 260
ego's goal is quite explicitly EGO AUTONOMY. From the beginning, then T 10 F 5 T(434)- 261
Everything that stems from the ego is the natural outcome of T 10 F 5 T(434)- 261
7. The belief in EGO autonomy is costing you the T 10 F 7 T(434)- 261
WHICH YOUR FREEDOM LIES. The ego sees ALL dependency as threatening T 10 F 7 T(434)- 261
interpretation of your conflict. The ego ALWAYS attacks on behalf of T 10 F 7 T(434)- 261
IS nothing else. The ego is totally confused about reality T 10 F 7 T(435)262
that the LAST thing the ego wishes you to realize, is T 10 F 8 T(435)262
OF IT. For if the ego gives rise to fear, it T 10 F 8 T(435)262
10 F 9. The ego can and does allow you T 10 F 9 T(435)262
quite apart from HOW THE EGO WANTS TO YOU TO EXPERIENCE T 10 F 10 T(435)262
IT, is therefore the basic ego threat. Its dream of autonomy T 10 F 10 T(435)262
IS the cost, and the ego CANNOT minimize it. For if T 10 F 10 T(435)262
IT EXISTS IN TRUTH. The ego believes that to accomplish ITS T 10 F 12 T(436) 263
fear, this IS what the ego would have you believe. Yet T 10 F 13 T(436) 263
10 F 14. The ego analyzes; the Holy Spirit ACCEPTS T 10 F 14 T(437)- 264
characteristically contradictory approach of the ego to everything. Never forget thatT 10 F 14 T(437)- 264
everything. Never forget that the ego believes that power, understanding ANDT 10 F 14 T(437)- 264
that separation IS salvation, the ego attacks everything it perceives, by T 10 F 14 T(437)- 264
and thus without meaning. The ego will ALWAYS substitute chaos for T 10 F 14 T(437)- 264
of the Holy Spirit's. The ego FOCUSES ON ERROR, and OVERLOOKS T 10 F 15 T(437)- 264
it has made real, the ego proceeds to the next step T 10 F 15 T(437)- 264
10 F 16. The ego makes no attempt to UNDERSTAND T 10 F 16 T(437)- 264
clearly not understandable. But the ego does make EVERY attempt to T 10 F 16 T(437)- 264
Analyzing to ATTACK meaning, the ego DOES succeed in overlooking it T 10 F 16 T(437)- 264
MUST be deluded. Can the ego teach truly, when it overlooks T 10 F 17 T(438)265
WHAT it has denied. The ego looks straight at the Father T 10 F 17 T(438)265
through the eyes of the ego is a demonstration that His T 10 F 18 T(438)265
for Christ or for the ego, depending on what you perceive T 10 F 19 T(438)265
triumph of Christ over the ego, not by attack, but by T 10 G 1 T(439)266
Christ DOES rise above the ego and all its works, and T 10 G 1 T(439)266
NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN THEM. The ego sees SOME good, but never T 10 H 2 T(443)- 270
2. The analysis of ego motivation is very complicated, very T 11 A 2 T(449)- 276
the risk of your own ego involvement. The whole process represents T 11 A 2 T(449)- 276
in the undoing of the ego. Consider how well the Holy T 11 B 7 T(452)279
you are believing that the EGO is to be saved, AND T 11 D 3 T(459)286
are. Poverty is of the ego, and never of God. No T 11 D 4 T(460)287
To identify with the ego is to attack yourself, and T 11 D 6 T(461)- 288
everyone who identifies with the ego FEELS DEPRIVED. What he EXPERIENCES T 11 D 6 T(461)- 288
its source AS HIS OWN EGO IDENTIFICATION, and he ALWAYS tries T 11 D 6 T(461)- 288
your attempt to maintain your ego identification, for everyone believes thatT 11 D 7 T(461)- 288
11 E 1. The ego is certain that love is T 11 E 1 T(463)- 290
everyone who believes that the ego is salvation is intensely engaged T 11 E 1 T(463)- 290
SEARCH for love. Yet the ego, though encouraging the search very T 11 E 1 T(463)- 290
IT WILL KEEP. For the ego pursues its goal with fanatic T 11 E 1 T(463)- 290
The search which the ego undertakes is therefore bound to T 11 E 2 T(463)- 290
perceived SELF defeat. For the ego CANNOT love, and in its T 11 E 2 T(463)- 290
SEARCH is inevitable, because the ego is part of your mind T 11 E 2 T(463)- 290
because of its source, the ego is not wholly split off T 11 E 2 T(463)- 290
Being UNABLE to love, the ego would be totally inadequate in T 11 E 3 T(463)- 290
response pattern you NEED. The ego will therefore DISTORT love, and T 11 E 3 T(463)- 290
calls forth the responses the ego CAN teach. Follow its teaching T 11 E 3 T(463)- 290
DO you realize that the ego MUST set you on a T 11 E 4 T(463)- 290
11 G 1. The ego is trying to teach you T 11 G 1 T(469)- 296
seek you WILL find. The ego finds what it seeks, and T 11 H 6 T(473)- 300
11 H 15. The ego is not a traitor to T 11 H 15 T(476)- 303
to the voice of the ego, which tells you that you T 11 H 15 T(476)- 303
Him, AND NOT FROM THE EGO, because, by confusing yourself WITH T 11 H 15 T(476)- 303
by confusing yourself WITH the ego, you believe that YOU want T 11 H 15 T(476)- 303
is the proof that the ego never was, and can never T 11 J 6 T(481)308
never be. Without guilt the ego HAS no life, and God's T 11 J 6 T(481)308
INSTEAD of dispelling it. The ego believes in ATONEMENT THROUGH ATTACK T 11 J 14 T(484)311
but by identifying WITH the ego, could you hold dear what T 11 J 14 T(484)311
11 J 15. The ego teaches you to attack yourself T 11 J 15 T(484)311
purpose of projection, as the ego uses it, is ALWAYS to T 12 A 1 T(485)312
ONLY. For much as the ego wants to RETAIN guilt, YOU T 12 A 1 T(485)312
to RETAIN guilt, as the ego insists, YOU CANNOT BE YOU T 12 A 1 T(485)312
IT is you, could the ego possibly induce you to PROJECT T 12 A 1 T(485)312
with a weird assortment of EGO ideals, which the ego claims T 12 A 2 T(485)312
of EGO ideals, which the ego claims you have failed. But T 12 A 2 T(485)312
definition of guilt. To the ego, THE GUILTLESS ARE GUILTY. Those T 12 B 2 T(485)312
look upon calmly, for the ego cannot protect you AGAINST truth T 12 B 2 T(486) 313
and in its presence the ego is dispelled. T 12 T 12 B 2 T(486) 313
uncovered its source. For the ego DOES want to kill you T 12 B 3 T(486) 313
is the symbol of the ego. When it was confronted with T 12 B 4 T(486) 313
blasphemous to God. To the ego, THE EGO IS GOD, and T 12 B 4 T(486) 313
God. To the ego, THE EGO IS GOD, and guiltlessness MUST T 12 B 4 T(486) 313
recognized the futility of the ego and its offerings, but though T 12 B 6 T(487)314
not believe that, WITHOUT THE EGO, you would find, within yourself T 12 C 2 T(488)315
of God than of the ego, and love cannot enter where T 12 C 6 T(489)316
in Heaven is creating. The ego teaches that your function on T 12 D 1 T(492)319
12 D 4. The ego has a very strange notion T 12 D 4 T(493)320
questioning might well begin. The ego invests heavily in the past T 12 D 4 T(493)320
an intervening present. For the ego uses the present ONLY as T 12 D 4 T(493)320
has no meaning to the ego. The present merely reminds it T 12 D 5 T(493)320
it were past. For the ego cannot tolerate RELEASE from the T 12 D 5 T(493)320
it is no more, the ego tries to preserve its IMAGE T 12 D 5 T(493)320
in the present. For the ego would PRESERVE
T 12 D 6 T(493)320
holy because YOU are. The ego teaches that you always encounter T 12 D 7 T(494)321
12 D 9. The ego, on the other hand, regards T 12 D 9 T(494)321
like the Holy Spirit, the ego interprets the goal of time T 12 D 9 T(494)321
is left to you. The ego wants to HAVE things for T 12 G 9 T(507)334
10. EVERYTHING that the ego tells you that you need T 12 G 10 T(508)- 335
the dust. For where the ego sees salvation IT SEES SEPARATION T 12 G 10 T(508)- 335
those who obey it. The ego rewards fidelity to it with T 13 C 2 T(513)340
afraid to look within. The ego tells you all is black T 13 C 7 T(515)- 342
is the reconciliation which the ego would substitute for your reconciliationT 13 E 8 T(524)351
EFFECT, as surely as the ego will NOT effect what it T 13 E 9 T(524)351
attempts. Failure is of the ego, NOT of God. From Him T 13 E 9 T(524)351
as well, as does the ego, except that HIS conclusions are T 13 F 1 T(525)352
clearly to Heaven as the ego points to darkness and to T 13 F 1 T(525)352
and the Resurrection; between the ego and the Holy Spirit. The T 13 H 4 T(531)- 358
and the Holy Spirit. The ego is the choice for guilt T 13 H 4 T(531)- 358
truth and illusion, OF THE EGO AND GOD, is the Holy T 14 E 1 T(552)- 379
E 2. Bringing the ego to God, is but to T 14 E 2 T(552)- 379
or hell; God or the ego. You need but leave the T 14 E 5 T(553)- 380
others are motivated by the ego, which but SEEMS to think T 14 F 4 T(555)- 382
that you are NOT an ego, and that MORE than an T 14 F 5 T(555)- 382
and that MORE than an ego MUST be in you. For T 14 F 5 T(555)- 382
be in you. For the ego IS chaos, and if it T 14 F 5 T(555)- 382
upon your minds limits the ego, IT ALSO LIMITS YOU. To T 14 F 6 T(555)- 382
his offering by which your EGO judges it. The ego is T 14 F 8 T(556)- 383
your EGO judges it. The ego is incapable of understanding content T 14 F 8 T(556)- 383
unconcerned with it. To the ego, if the form is acceptable T 14 F 8 T(556)- 383
it. The study of the ego is NOT the study of T 14 F 9 T(556)- 383
the mind. In fact, the ego enjoys the study of itself T 14 F 9 T(556)- 383
no-one ALONE can judge the ego truly. But when two or T 14 F 10 T(556)- 383
in searching for truth, the ego can no longer defend its T 14 F 10 T(556)- 383
do so, by abandoning the ego on behalf of Him. Call T 14 G 14 T(562)- 389
Him. Call not upon the ego for ANYTHING. It is only T 14 G 14 T(562)- 389
to your identification with the ego, who uses time to support T 15 A 2 T(563)- 390
ITS belief in destruction. The ego, like the Holy Spirit, uses T 15 A 2 T(563)- 390
end of learning. To the ego, the goal is death, which T 15 A 2 T(563)- 390
15 B 1. The ego IS an ally of time T 15 B 1 T(563)- 390
you, IT cannot tolerate. The ego wants YOU dead, but NOT T 15 B 1 T(563)- 390
those who identify with the ego. Their nightmares and their fears T 15 B 2 T(563)- 390
all associated with it. The ego teaches that hell is IN T 15 B 2 T(563)- 390
ITS GOAL. For, although the ego aims at death and dissolution T 15 B 2 T(564)391
clearly as here. For the ego must SEEM to KEEP FEAR T 15 B 3 T(564)391
to maintain ITSELF. Again, the ego tries, and all too frequently T 15 B 3 T(564)391
SEEM to be reconciled. The ego teaches thus: Death is the T 15 B 3 T(564)391
version of time supports. The ego teaches that Heaven is here T 15 B 4 T(564)391
oblivion. The only time the ego allows anyone to look upon T 15 B 4 T(564)391
insidious threat to peace. The ego does not advertise its final T 15 B 5 T(564)391
only way in which the ego allows the fear of hell T 15 B 5 T(564)391
Hell is only what the ego has made OF THE PRESENT T 15 B 6 T(565)392
steadily to Heaven, as the ego drives to hell. For the T 15 B 6 T(565)392
the fear by which the ego would make the present useless T 15 B 6 T(565)392
seeing them as sources of EGO support. As a result, they T 15 C 4 T(568)- 395
result, they witness TO the ego in your perception, and SEEM T 15 C 4 T(568)- 395
choice, whether they support the ego or the Holy Spirit IN T 15 C 5 T(568)- 395
you be hostage to the ego or host to God? Let T 15 D 5 T(571)- 398
His Son hostage to the ego, CANNOT make little whom God T 15 D 6 T(571)- 398
value NO plan of the ego, BEFORE the plan of God T 15 E 3 T(574)401
simple. Complexity is of the ego, and is nothing more than T 15 E 6 T(575)- 402
you believe that, WITHOUT THE EGO, all would be chaos. Yet T 15 F 1 T(577)404
assure you that, without the ego, ALL WOULD BE LOVE. T 15 F 1 T(577)404
have chosen to support the ego, as a learning experience which T 15 F 4 T(578)405
love relationship in which the ego enters. For EVERY relationship on T 15 H 1 T(584)- 411
EVERY relationship on which the ego embarks IS special. The ego T 15 H 1 T(584)- 411
ego embarks IS special. The ego establishes relationships ONLY to GET T 15 H 1 T(584)- 411
It is impossible for the ego to enter into any relationship T 15 H 2 T(584)- 411
relationship without anger, for the ego believes that ANGER MAKES FRIENDS T 15 H 2 T(584)- 411
IS its purpose. For the ego REALLY BELIEVES that it can T 15 H 2 T(584)- 411
NO-ONE RECOGNIZES IT. For the ego always SEEMS to attract through T 15 H 2 T(584)- 411
We said before that the ego attempts to maintain and INCREASE T 15 H 4 T(585)- 412
others, YOU HAVE ESCAPED. The ego wishes NO-ONE well. But its T 15 H 4 T(585)- 412
make himself host to the ego. In the name of his T 15 H 5 T(585)- 412
at the relationships that the ego contrives, and let the Holy T 15 H 5 T(585)- 412
another, every relationship which the ego makes is based on the T 15 H 6 T(585)- 412
it REALLY wants. Yet the ego acknowledges reality as it sees T 15 H 6 T(585)- 412
Forgiveness becomes impossible, for the ego believes, that to forgive anotherT 15 H 7 T(586)- 413
attack WITHOUT forgiveness, that the ego can ensure the guilt which T 15 H 7 T(586)- 413
together. For relationships, to the ego, mean ONLY that BODIES are T 15 H 8 T(586)- 413
always PHYSICAL closeness that the ego demands, and it does not T 15 H 8 T(586)- 413
it is content. To the ego, THE MIND IS PRIVATE, and T 15 H 8 T(586)- 413
the gifts with which the ego would bless all unions. And T 15 H 9 T(586)- 413
of it. For what the ego really, wants you do NOT T 15 H 9 T(586)- 413
a special relationship which the ego has blessed, for anger IS T 15 H 10 T(587)- 414
the ONLY basis which the ego accepts for special relationships. Guilt T 15 H 10 T(587)- 414
is the only need the ego has, and, as long as T 15 H 10 T(587)- 414
DANGER IN COMMUNICATION. For the ego will ALWAYS teach that loneliness T 15 H 12 T(587)- 414
I 8. As the ego would limit your perception of T 15 I 8 T(591)- 418
is the symbol of the ego, as the ego is the T 15 I 9 T(591)- 418
of the ego, as the ego is the symbol of separation T 15 I 9 T(591)- 418
give up EVERY use the ego has for the body, and T 15 I 10 T(591)- 418
accept the fact that the ego has NO purpose you would T 15 I 10 T(591)- 418
SHARE with it. For the ego would limit everyone TO a T 15 I 10 T(591)- 418
have surely recognized that the ego, whose goals are altogether UNattainableT 15 I 11 T(591)- 418
and hell, God and the ego, and RELEASE your power unto T 15 I 11 T(592)- 419
WITHOUT the limits that the ego would impose on them, can T 15 I 12 T(592)- 419
separation and attack, which the EGO sees in it, you will T 15 J 1 T(593)- 420
them both, NOT as the ego uses them. This is the T 15 J 2 T(593)- 420
the same. For, though the ego takes many forms, it is T 15 J 5 T(595)- 422
to be host to the ego, or hostage to God. This T 15 J 6 T(595)- 422
WHAT. As host to the ego, you believe that you can T 15 J 7 T(595)- 422
it is obvious that the ego DOES demand payment, it NEVER T 15 J 7 T(595)- 422
unwilling to recognize that the ego, which you INVITED, is treacherous T 15 J 7 T(595)- 422
15 J 8. The ego will NEVER let you perceive T 15 J 8 T(595)- 422
deceived by ANY form the ego takes, to protect itself FROM T 15 J 8 T(596)- 423
total sacrifice. And so the ego seems to demand LESS of T 15 J 8 T(596)- 423
being PARTIAL hostage to the ego, for it keeps NO bargains T 15 J 10 T(596)- 423
does NOT relate through the ego to another ego. He does T 16 A 1 T(601)428
through the ego to another ego. He does NOT join in T 16 A 1 T(601)428
proof that empathy, as the ego uses it, is DESTRUCTIVE, lies T 16 A 2 T(601)428
mistake about this maneuver; the ego always EMPATHIZES TO WEAKEN. And T 16 A 2 T(601)428
directed against God. For the ego would have you see Him T 16 F 1 T(616)443
guilt. The dynamics of the ego are clearest here, for, counting T 16 F 2 T(616)443
to the preservation of the ego, that you believe this specialness T 16 F 4 T(617)444
hell, but HEAVEN. For the ego would never have you see T 16 F 4 T(617)444
on this, because both the ego AND the Holy Spirit accept T 16 F 5 T(617)444
EXTENSION of union. To the ego, completion lies in triumph, and T 16 F 5 T(617)444
a condition in which the EGO cannot interfere, MUST BE HELL T 16 F 5 T(617)444
is a strange and unnatural ego device for joining hell and T 16 F 6 T(617)444
of the self, which the ego fosters in the special relationship T 16 F 7 T(617)444
The better self the ego seeks is ALWAYS one that T 16 F 8 T(618)445
self IN EACH OTHER, the EGO sees a union made in T 16 F 8 T(618)445
attraction of guilt, which the ego holds out to those who T 16 F 9 T(618)445
and SUBSTITUTE ILLUSION. For the ego is ITSELF an illusion, and T 16 F 9 T(618)445
equate your self with the ego, and NOT with God. For T 16 G 1 T(622)- 449
has value ONLY to the ego. To IT, UNLESS a relationship T 16 G 1 T(622)- 449
its REAL appeal, for the ego has taught you that FREEDOM T 16 G 2 T(622)- 449
the special relationship which the EGO seeks, does NOT include even T 16 G 4 T(623)- 450
ONE whole individual. For the ego WANTS but part of him T 16 G 4 T(623)- 450
mockery of salvation that the ego offered you, and look not T 16 G 9 T(624)- 451
and COMPLETELY insane. For the ego remembers everything that YOU have T 16 H 3 T(626)- 453
H 4. For the ego holds the past AGAINST YOU T 16 H 4 T(626)- 453
in your own destruction, the ego could not hold you to T 16 H 4 T(627)- 454
the one thing that the ego NEVER allows to reach awareness T 16 H 5 T(627)- 454
of God, and NOT the ego, in seeking how Atonement can T 16 H 10 T(628)- 455
figures which would MAKE THE EGO holy in your sight, and T 17 D 2 T(635)- 462
WHERE IT WAS MADE. The EGO seeks to resolve ITS problems T 17 D 8 T(637)- 464
has JOINED as one, the ego CANNOT break apart. The spark T 17 D 10 T(637)- 464
continuing, unholy alliance with the ego AGAINST THE PRESENT. For the T 17 D 11 T(638)- 465
EXCEPT between God and the ego. Thought-systems are but true or T 17 D 12 T(638)- 465
the separation. For, although the ego did not understand WHAT had T 17 E 3 T(640)467
whole defense system that the ego evolved, to PROTECT the separation T 17 E 4 T(641)468
17 E 5. The ego IS hyperalert to threat, and T 17 E 5 T(641)468
your mind into which the ego was accepted is VERY anxious T 17 E 5 T(641)468
in general terms, that the ego is insane. But the special T 17 E 6 T(641)468
of all the defenses the ego uses. Its thought-system is offered T 17 E 8 T(642)469
the whole thought-system of the ego lies in ITS gifts, so T 17 E 11 T(643)470
The temptation of the ego becomes extremely intense, with this T 17 F 4 T(647)474
would be obscured, and the ego given time to re-interpret each T 17 F 5 T(647)474
OF ITS GOAL. Now the ego counsels thus; substitute for this T 17 F 7 T(648)475
disorganized approach is evident. The ego does not know what it T 17 G 2 T(651)478
is whether or not the ego LIKES it; is it acceptable T 17 G 3 T(651)478
way of looking. For the EGO believes the situation BRINGS the T 17 G 5 T(652)479
from the viewpoint of the ego, for the ego believes in T 17 G 6 T(653)480
of the ego, for the ego believes in solving conflicts through T 17 G 6 T(653)480
SEEMS to be difficult, the ego will attempt to TAKE THIS T 17 G 7 T(653)480
is the strongest defense the ego has for separation. T T 18 A 1 T(659)486
Spirit NEVER substitutes. Where the ego perceives one person as a T 18 A 2 T(659)486
between the fragmented relationships the ego sponsors, to destroy. T T 18 A 2 T(659)486
into a TRIBUTE to your ego, which was outraged by the T 18 C 1 T(664)491
yourself AS ONE with the ego, which ALWAYS looks upon itself T 18 C 1 T(664)491
CHANGING it TO SUIT THE EGO BETTER. They provide STRIKING examples T 18 C 2 T(664)491
or you will add the ego unto Him, and CONFUSE THE T 18 E 1 T(671)- 498
not. Within this kingdom the ego rules, and cruelly. And, to T 18 I 2 T(685) 509
him from every demand your ego would make of him. Thus T 19 A 2 T(694)518
is wholly indefensible to the ego. The IDEA of sin is T 19 C 5 T(700)524
can indeed be said the ego MADE its world on sin T 19 C 6 T(700)524
God to an IDEAL the EGO wants; a world IT rules T 19 C 6 T(700)524
WHAT HE IS. To the ego, THIS IS NO MISTAKE. For T 19 C 8 T(701)525
tempted to AGREE with the ego, that it is far better T 19 C 9 T(701)525
ESSENTIAL part of what the ego thinks you ARE, you will T 19 D 1 T(702)526
19 D 2. The ego does not think it possible T 19 D 2 T(702)526
AND ALWAYS ANSWERS. For the ego brings sin to FEAR, demanding T 19 D 2 T(702)526
INSTEAD of you. To the ego, sin MEANS death, and so T 19 F 9 T(714)538
This IS completion, as the ego sees it. For guilt creeps T 19 F 10 T(714)538
for it is one the ego sees as proof of sin T 19 H 5 T(719)543
sender and the receiver. The ego and the Holy Spirit both T 19 H 7 T(719)543
you this with joy. The ego HIDES it, for it would T 19 H 7 T(719)543
true. Forget not that the ego has DEDICATED the body to T 19 H 9 T(720)544
the Son. Like to the ego, the Holy Spirit is both T 19 H 10 T(720)544
it seeks. So does the ego FIND the death it seeks T 19 H 10 T(720)544
with death. Made by the ego, its dark shadow falls across T 19 I 1 T(721)545
all living things, because the ego is the enemy of life T 19 I 1 T(721)545
the thought we call the ego, as surely as life is T 19 I 3 T(721)545
J 1. From the ego came sin and guilt and T 19 J 1 T(721)545
KILL it. For what the ego loves ,it kills for its T 19 J 3 T(722)546
of its distorted world. the ego would lay the Son of T 19 J 6 T(723)547
ALWAYS for one reason; the ego has perceived it as a T 19 J 10 T(724)548
made in secret to the ego, never to lift this veil T 19 K 3 T(726)550
secret bargain, made with the ego, to keep what lies BEYOND T 19 K 3 T(726)550
of death than of the ego. These are your chosen FRIENDS T 19 K 4 T(727)551
fear of vengeance of the ego you swore in blood not T 19 K 6 T(727)551
it was surely NOT the ego that led you here. No T 19 L 1 T(728)552
ANY kind are of the ego. For it is the ego's T 20 D 2 T(740)564
ALWAYS seen as dangerous. The ego is the self-appointed mediator of T 20 D 2 T(740)564
is carefully preserved by the ego, whose image it IS and T 20 D 5 T(741)565
just as the world the ego looks upon is like itself T 20 D 6 T(741)565
your brother's value. Only the ego does this, but all it T 20 F 3 T(748)571
seen as valueless. Homeless, the ego seeks as many bodies as T 20 G 4 T(751)574
of Christ OR of the ego. EITHER must be an error T 20 H 4 T(756)579
the means by which the ego tries to make the unholy T 20 H 5 T(756)579
for salvation. All that the ego is, is an idea that T 21 C 6 T(769)591
wishful thinking is how the ego deals with what it wants T 21 C 9 T(770)592
in association with sin the ego deems quite appropriate, and smiles T 21 E 1 T(777)598
of fear. Remember that the ego is NOT alone. Its rule T 21 E 1 T(777)598
E 2. Loudly the ego tells you NOT to look T 21 E 2 T(777)598
serve it. Loudly indeed the ego claims it IS. TOO loudly T 21 E 2 T(777)598
shout and frantic proclamation, the ego is NOT certain it is T 21 E 2 T(777)598
and one which makes the ego tremble. What if you looked T 21 E 2 T(777)598
fearful question is one the ego NEVER asks. And you who T 21 E 2 T(777)598
their identity lies in the ego. A holy relationship is one T 21 E 3 T(777)598
reason tells you now, the ego would not hear. T T 21 E 3 T(778)599
part of your mind the ego knows not of. No more T 21 E 4 T(778)599
that it was NOT the ego that joined the Holy Spirit's T 21 E 4 T(778)599
6. And now the ego IS afraid. But what it T 21 E 6 T(778)599
to hear since first the ego came into your minds. The T 21 E 6 T(778)599
joined, and looks upon the ego unafraid. Little children, innocent of T 21 E 7 T(779)600
Listen to what the ego says, and see what it T 21 F 3 T(780)601
Miracles seem unnatural to the ego, because it does not understand T 21 F 4 T(781)602
Its alien nature, TO THE EGO, is proof you will NOT T 21 F 7 T(781)602
ENTIRELY on reason's absence. The ego NEVER uses it, because it T 21 F 10 T(782)603
asked the question that the ego will NEVER ask. Does not T 21 F 12 T(783)604
but truth. Only to the ego, to which TRUTH is meaningless T 22 C 1 T(801)621
forgiveness. Both reason AND the ego will tell you this. But T 22 C 4 T(802)622
22 C 5. The ego will assure you now that T 22 C 5 T(802)622
separation of you and the ego MUST be made complete. For T 22 C 6 T(802)622
in them. Yet, to the ego, they MUST be impossible, and T 22 C 6 T(802)622
undoing. For reason and the ego are CONTRADICTORY. Nor is it T 22 D 1 T(805)625
here do reason and the ego separate, to go their DIFFERENT T 22 D 1 T(805)625
3. Thus does the ego damn, and reason save. Reason T 22 D 3 T(805)625
form of error attracts the ego. Meaning it does not RECOGNIZE T 22 D 4 T(805)625
in a special form the ego venerates. It would preserve ALL T 22 D 4 T(806)626
2. Consider what the ego wants defenses FOR. ALWAYS to T 22 F 2 T(811)630
keep a little of the ego with this gift. For it T 22 G 17 T(818)637
you CANNOT separate, DENIES the ego. Let TRUTH decide if you T 22 G 17 T(819)638
imply that you believe the ego has the power TO BE T 23 B 1 T(821)640
it? Surely you realize the ego IS at war with God T 23 B 1 T(821)640
Is this a VICTORY? The ego ALWAYS marches to defeat, BECAUSE T 23 B 2 T(821)640
is impossible God and the ego, or yourself and it, will T 23 B 3 T(821)640
error in your self-appraisal. The ego joins with an ILLUSION of T 23 B 3 T(821)640
or as a thousand. The ego joins with nothing, BEING nothing T 23 B 3 T(822)641
His Son. Think not the ego will enable you to find T 23 C 8 T(827)646
does NOT value what the ego cherishes.
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23 C 9. The ego values only what it TAKES T 23 C 9 T(828)647
Comparison MUST be an ego device, for love makes none T 24 C 1 T(842)661
in which God and the ego challenge each other as to W 13 L 2 W(22)
space which meaninglessness provides. The ego rushes in frantically to establishW 13 L 2 W(22)
do not exist. To the ego illusions are safety devices, as W 13 L 3 W(22)
who equate yourself with the ego. W 13 L 4 W 13 L 3 W(22)
as meaningful in terms of ego goals. These goals have nothing W 25 L 2 W(42)
own best interests, because the ego is not you. This false W 25 L 2 W(42)
His holiness, not to your ego and therefore not to your W 36 L 1 W(59)
can stand aside from the ego ever so little, you will W 44 L 6 W(76)
songs of praise to the ego. Do not put your faith W 50 L 2 W(88)
L 2. To the ego, today's idea is the epitome W 61 L 2 W(112)
epitome of self-glorification. But the ego does not understand humility, mistakingW 61 L 2 W(112)
arrogance is always of the ego. W 61 L 3 W 61 L 2 W(112)
only the arrogance of the ego which leads you to question W 64 L 3 W(117)
only the tear of the ego which induces you to regard W 64 L 3 W(117)
66 L 2. The ego does constant battle with the W 66 L 2 W(121)
not a two-way battle. The ego attacks and the Holy Spirit W 66 L 2 W(121)
We will not indulge the ego by listening to its attacks W 66 L 3 W(121)
One is ruled by the ego, and is made up of W 66 L 7 W(122)
but the fear which the ego always engenders and the love W 66 L 7 W(122)
or is made by the ego which you made to replace W 66 L 8 W(122)
be the gift of the ego. Does the ego really have W 66 L 8 W(122)
of the ego. Does the ego really have gifts to give W 66 L 8 W(122)
expect happiness from anything the ego has ever proposed. Yet the W 66 L 9 W(123)
has ever proposed. Yet the ego is the only alternative to W 66 L 9 W(123)
truth, replacing everything that the ego tells you about yourself with W 67 L 6 W(125)
the decision to let the ego rule your mind, and to W 68 L 1 W(126)
may not realize that the ego has set up a plan W 71 L 1 W(134)
are actually associated with the ego, while the ego appears to W 72 L 1 W(137)
with the ego, while the ego appears to take on the W 72 L 1 W(137)
replace God. In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of W 72 L 2 W(137)
to expand communication. Yet the ego would have you believe that W 72 L 2 W(137)
and mercy cannot enter, the ego comes to save you. God W 72 L 6 W(138)
are no longer asking the ego what salvation is and where W 72 L 11 W(139)
see. The wishes of the ego gave rise to it, and W 73 L 2 W(141)
They become the middlemen the ego employs to traffic in grievances W 73 L 2 W(141)
are. Today it is the ego which stands powerless before your W 73 L 7 W(142)
function. This may threaten my ego, but cannot change my function W 82 L 4 W(165)
one thought which renders the ego silent and entirely undone. You W 94 L 1 W(183)
idea, completely alien to the ego and the thinking of the W 126 L 1 W(255)
be deceived, for what the ego wants it fails to recognize W 133 L 8 W(278)
Son? What whispers of the ego can He hear? What could W 151 L 10 W(318)
false pretense by which the ego seeks to prove it arrogant W 152 L 9 W(322)
prove it arrogant. Only the ego can be arrogant. But truth W 152 L 9 W(322)
all the prices which the ego would exact. In them lies W 153 L 4 W(324)
never be escaped because the ego, under what it sees as W 196 L 2 W(438)
that you are not an ego. For the ways in which W 196 L 3 W(438)
the ways in which the ego would distort the truth will W 196 L 3 W(438)
not concerned that to the ego it is quite insane. The W 199 L 3 W(447)
it is quite insane. The ego holds the body dear because W 199 L 3 W(447)
Today we let no ego thoughts direct our words or W 254 L 2 W(499)
fill up the space the ego left unoccupied by lies. Only W 319 L 1 W(570)
unoccupied by lies. Only the ego can be limited, and therefore W 319 L 1 W(570)
are curtailed and limiting. The ego thinks that what one gains W 319 L 1 W(570)
W12 (12) What is the Ego? W 330 W 330 W12 0 W(583)
330 W12 1. The ego is idolatry; the sign of W 330 W12 1 W(583)
which It is denied. The ego is the proof that strength W 330 W12 1 W(583)
330 W12 2. The ego is insane. In fear it W 330 W12 2 W(583)
is not to know the ego and its thoughts, its works W 330 W12 4 W(583)
332 L 1. The ego makes illusions. Truth undoes its W 332 L 1 W(585)
the shabby offerings of the ego when the gifts of God M 5 B 2 M(9)
a central concept in the egos thought system. This thought M 23 A 3 M(54)
has identified with anothers ego, and has thus confused him M 23 A 5 M(55)
of his formal beliefs. His ego will be enough for him M 25 A 3 M(58)
wants and needs. Yet the ego sees in these same strengths M 26 A 4 M(61)
worlds material gifts the ego has been seriously threatened. It M 26 A 5 M(61)
have not seen through the egos defenses here, although they M 26 A 5 M(61)
merely means to strengthen the ego. Yet here is also a M 26 A 6 M(61)
This course remains within the ego framework, where it is needed U 1 A 3 U(1)
symbols. It is always the ego that questions because it is U 1 A 3 U(1)
because it is only the ego that doubts. The course merely U 1 A 3 U(1)
These are attributes of the ego. THE COURSE IS SIMPLE. It U 1 A 3 U(1)
1 A 4. The ego will demand many answers this U 1 A 4 U(1)
an answer is impossible. The ego may ask, How did the U 1 A 4 U(1)
has two parts; spirit and ego. U 2 A 3 U 2 A 2 U(2)
together. WRONG-MINDEDNESS listens to the ego and makes illusions; perceiving sinU 2 A 5 U(2)
the Holy Spirit or the ego. Consciousness has levels and awareness U 2 A U(3)
3. THE EGO - THE MIRACLE U 3 0 U(4)
of this. What is the ego? But a dream of what U 3 A 1 U(4)
2. What is the ego? Nothingness, but in a form U 3 A 2 U(4)
a world of form the ego cannot be denied for it U 3 A 2 U(4)
asks you to define the ego and explain how it arose U 3 A 2 U(4)
a definition for what the ego is, but we CAN say U 3 A 4 U(4)
we deduce all that the ego is. Look at its opposite U 3 A 4 U(4)
all that is not the ego in the world. Here is U 3 A 5 U(4)
we look on what the ego was. For here we see U 3 A 5 U(4)
the light. What was the ego? What the darkness was. Where U 3 A 6 U(4)
darkness was. Where was the ego? Where the darkness was. What U 3 A 6 U(4)
is holiness. What is the ego? What the evil was. Where U 3 A 6 U(5)
evil was. Where is the ego? In an evil dream that U 3 A 6 U(5)
God's Son. What is the ego? Who has need to ask U 3 A 6 U(5)
to ask? Where is the ego? Who has need to seek U 3 A 6 U(5)
8. This was the ego -- all the cruel hate U 3 A 8 U(5)
this instead of what the ego is, and you will see U 3 A 9 U(5)
cover up the world the ego made. No miracle is now U 3 A 9 U(5)
The miracle forgives; the ego damns. Neither need be defined U 3 A 10 U(5)
must be so because the ego cannot be at peace. But U 4 A 7 U(7)
of the errors which the ego fosters; that it is capable P 3 B 2 P(4)
are delusional. The changes the ego seeks to make are not P 3 B 2 P(4)
against the intrusions of the ego on the therapeutic process. But P 3 B 3 P(4)
religion is so obviously an ego attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable P 3 C 2 P(5)
transcend the narrow boundaries the ego would impose upon the self P 3 C 8 P(7)