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Friday 25 September 2015

DISCUSSING THE SUFI PHILOSOPHY: THE SELFLESSNESS OF SOUL VERSUS THE NECESSITY FOR EGO


ME: We are only aware of the difference between the "other" and ourselves because of ego, ego is the "I". It is not a bad thing...It just IS.

IVAN: Exactly.

ME: If there was no ego, there would be only an amorphous mass of indistinguishable and fathomless sensation, no thought, no awareness, nothing would be real. Perception is the hand that shapes the Universe.

IVAN: You right.

ME: God is ego personified, the awareness of self; the awakening is pure ego. Sufi dances are the ecstasy of the ego embracing the Whole in joy, not egocentricity.

IVAN: Yes.

ME: You are just saying that so that I will shut up

IVAN: YES!

From: Conversations with Ivan Shapiro

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