The ego tends to equate having with Being:
I have, therefore I am.
And the more I have, the more I am.
The ego lives through comparison.
How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.
If everyone lived in a mansion or everyone was wealthy, your mansion
or your wealth would no longer serve to enhance your sense of self.
You could then move to a simple cabin, give up our wealth, and regain
an identity by seeing yourself and being seen as more spiritual than
others.
How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you
are like and who you are.
The ego’s sense of selfworth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have
in the eyes of others.
You need others to give you a sense of self, and if you live in a
culture that to a large extent equates selfworth with how much and
what you have, if you cannot look through this collective delusion,
you will be condemned to chasing after things for the rest of your
life in the vain hope of finding your worth and completion of your
sense of self there.
How do you let go of attachment to things?
Don’t even try. It’s impossible.
Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to
find yourself in them.
In the meantime, just be aware of your attachment to things.
Sometimes you may not know that you are attached to something, which
is to say, until you lose it or there is the threat of loss.
If you then become upset, anxious, and so on, it means you are attached.
If you are aware that you are identified with a thing, the
identification is no longer
total.
“I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment.”
That’s the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.
-- ECKHART TOLLE
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