On a collective level, the “mind-set” “We are right and they are wrong” is particularly deeply entrenched in those parts of the world where conflict between two nations, races, tribes, religions, or ideologies is long standing, extreme, and endemic. ...... ...the human ego in its collective aspect as “us” against “them” is even more insane than the “me”, the individual ego, although the mechanism is te same. By far the greater part of violence that humans have inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or the mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens in the service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say on this planet “normal” equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego. Eckhart Tolle, “A New Earth”
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:44:07 +0000
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