| BkII:1.V.5 | The ego's compulsion to possess was a failed experiment. Is not life as you know it to some extent inefficient and disordered? Why would you not think that God's creative processes would always be effective? You no longer reside in the era of the ego. The ego is gone forever. You have abandoned it. What we are about now is the dismantling of customary past mental patterns. We are now ready to release the chains, the fundamental patterns of ego, that clung to us from the compulsion to possess. Now we can move freely; only the remembrance of their weight and discomfort could impede us. Serenely we release the pattern of those chains, the energy of the compulsion to possess. We simply leave it aside. |