| BkII:1.V.4 | The compulsion to possess is the opposite of generosity. The compulsion to possess arose in response to the nothingness that you perceived. By denying being you denied love, and thus considered yourself to be little, almost nothing. Somehow, using the celestial memory which allowed you to know that being and having are the same, you tried to become more by possessing more. Ownership is the basis of the egoic mental mechanism, and like everything of ego, it did not work. Ego can never achieve its purpose. The ego promises but cannot fulfill, not because it is sinful, but because it is impossible. |