Spiritual Epiphanies

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I was reading some of the teachings of Ra and The Law of One today. From what I read it is believed that we are one of the same being. I got a picture in my mind of the static on a television with millions of tiny parts of one whole entity. That started me thinking about how I relate to people & though I believed myself to view everyone as equals I came to a realization that the ego plays a huge part in spiritual growth. For example: I post on another website. Not a spiritual website but a site about sacred plants. Another member had posted a video & was very unkind and racist in their remarks. So, being ever so open minded as I thought I was, I posted some unkind remarks about this person. Everyone on the forum thought my remarks were funny, which really boosted my ego. I thought that I was brilliant for responding the way I did. Today I came to a realization. The only thing I managed to accomplish was to feed my ego at someone else's expense. It made me feel great to be able to make him feel bad, which is essentially the same thing he did in his post. If we are all one then I should have "walked in his shoes" if you will. It was then I realized that by feeding our own ego, in the process we destroy one another's egos. We think we feel better about ourselves when in actuality the more we practice this process the more we need to feed our egos. It gives us the false sense that we are superior, when in reality we are no better than each other. We are more alike than we care to admit, more similar than different. We are the same. We are one.