OWN Oprah: Your Ego or Your True Self

On Oprah’s first episode of her Master Class show (on the OWN network) she spoke on trying to determine the difference between living in your ego and your true self.  She reflected on a time in her life when she was basing her self worth on how much she weighed.  There was an episode of the  original OPRAH show where she carried out a cart full of fat, which represented the amount of weight she lost.  She also showed clips of how she was shaking her hips reveling in the fact that she was thin and could wear a pair of Calvin Klein jeans that fit from 10 years prior to that showing.  Oprah has become aware that during that period of her life she was operating from the ego aspect of her mind.  The loss of weight was the reason for Oprah feeling good about herself. This feeling was not emanating from her innermost being.  Oprah mentions the book “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle in which he mentions that ego is “identification with form.”  Where your self worth is not rooted from an attachment to your innermost being.  From gaining an understanding of the meaning of this, she arrived at an epiphany within.  She began to gradually understand the motivations of how she was thinking from her ego at certain points in her life.

Going over this type of principle at this point in history is very important.  We are dealing with man (and woman) and the flexing of the ego manifesting at an all time high.  Government officials will not to talk to each other and refuse to negotiate.  Economic disruptions are permeating our society without regard to how lives, families and generations will be affected.  Movies continue to come out with the same formula without regard to how the general public is receiving them.  The quality of music is declining, yet similar songs are continuously being released.  We need to ask ourselves constantly are we operating from the ego or from our innermost being.  It seems to me that the domination of ego centered thinking is helping to damage our society.   Ego centered thinking seems to always think that it is correct regardless of the circumstance it is in.  The time is now to reverse the energy of the ego.  An interesting yet insightful Oprah episode.

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