I’m ego-obsessed. I want power, intelligence, and love. I’m constantly self-focused to make myself better. Even my relationships are conditional on that person making me better.

I wonder: Does this keep me from loving to my fullest? And from truly empathizing with others and writing characters other than myself?

There is a tension: Between me, as separate, acting for the good of myself, and me, as connected to the One, acting for the good of all unified creation, of which I am part.

I must die to myself. It is not my true nature. My true power to do good comes from the One. My highest happiness comes from connection to the One. I’m cut off from the true nature of existence when I’m trapped in my ego self.

It doesn’t matter what I do, as long as: I do it with love, and to the best of my ability. Returning to reality the potential energy inside of me, and letting it return from reality back through me. Remember, that we are all One: every human is you, with you, in the same unified whole.