Spirituality, ego, and the beauty of being way less botherable

WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

Danielle LaPorte

Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The ego’s favourite hiding place is… You ready? In personal-development workshops!

Self-helpers and spiritual seekers really know how to strive, and striving is classic ego-ing.

Being on the path can appear to be anything but arrogant or self-serving. Philosophies of peace spoken softly. Self-sacrifice. And it all looks great in stretchy yoga pants. I’m body positive. I’m a meditator. I’m journaling daily. I’m fighting for peace.

All these actions and commitments can be sourced from one’s heart, a bona fide outpouring of dedication to Love. And… Virtuous actions can be puppeteered by a shadow self that’s telling you that you need to constantly burn your bad karma.

Same spiritual practice, different motivations.

You feel me? I know you do.

This episode of WITH LOVE, DANIELLE (#52) is for you, babe. And me. Because I’ve been there.

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0:00.0	Spirituality is really the practice of thinking with love.
0:09.4	Thinking with love.
0:10.9	And we can train ourselves to keep returning to love via our thoughts.
0:16.6	Return to love with your mind.
0:19.4	You can do this over and over again. Let's do it over and over again
0:24.4	together. I am Danielle Laporte and this is with love, Danielle. Hello my friends. Last episode,
0:44.8	I was speaking about the ego and the ego just being an exaggerated sense of a separate self and how that the ego, for all the trouble it can cause us, for all the trouble we let it cause us,
0:56.7	it's really just a gift to point us to our true self, our divine self. Today I want to talk
1:04.8	about where the ego hides, how those subtleties of the mind look for places to not be found. The ways that we tell
1:17.6	ourselves that we're less than, the ways that we put on these masks of bravado and different
1:25.0	identities, the ways that like we're a little bit greedy, we're a little bit
1:29.1	insecure. We might be a whole lot soft-spoken because we don't feel that we deserve to have
1:35.6	our place at the table. We might be walking through the business world, like we are the king or the
1:40.7	queen when really those are just masquerades that we get from different how-to programs and
1:46.3	ways to dawn or persona so we don't have to really get to our intimacy.
1:51.1	Anyway, I might have been to one of those workshops.
1:56.7	If you were the ego, if you were wanting to hide your insecurity, if you were wanting to look amazing and virtuous, where would you go to hide?
2:13.8	How about a personal development workshop? How about church? The ego's favorite place to hide is in the whole personal development landscape. Because self-helpers and, you know, us spiritual seekers, if you're here, I'm sure you're giving yourself that label. We really know how to strive.
2:36.3	And striving is classic egoing. So as I've defined before, egoing is the opposite of loving.
2:45.4	Egoing is this beautiful term from Adi Ashanti, one of my favorite teachers. And the idea here is that the ego is not so much
2:53.4	this personality that sits outside of ourselves, that we need to wrangle. It's really just a way
3:01.4	of behaving. Egoing is a way of being that is counter to acceptance and counter to community.
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