A. SS

Notice how in the title of this email, I said "pride/ego." 

This is because pride is ego. Ego is pride. It is the belief "I am the doer of life," "I am the creator."

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How can we live life without getting entangled in pride? (Which by the way, only creates suffering for yourself and the world).

Here's what I have found to be helpful in my experience. Hopefully, it will help you too :)

Enjoy experiences, but don't cling. Observe, but don't identify. 

Know that you do nothing. You only appear to. 

Wisdom comes to you, pleasure comes to you, blessings come to you. 

They are given, not gotten. 

They are bestowed, not achieved. 

They are a gift from God, not something "you made happen." 

Let go of the idea "I do." 

You only appear to do. But the impulse to do, the energy to perform the action, and the reward following that action, are all the doing of God. 

The personal self doesn't actually exist. It is just an appearance of which we are only the witness. 

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Let the concept of pride die within you. Remain forever humble. Be happy being a nobody, a nothing. 

Live on God alone. God is your sole protector and provider. God is your greatest treasure! 

Living in this way, your mind cannot become corrupted by pride. 

2 Things:

• If you don't like the word God, replace it with Source, Self, or Life.
• If you want to experientially understand non-doership and become established in the inner peace which results from living in spiritual surrender