We don't know where we are, although we insist we do. It can be helpful to think about, read about, write about, talk about, and have strong feelings about the way we fool our self. The ego and its desires are immune to the intellect. Words and feelings cannot reveal the truth of things, no matter how exciting or inspiring the insight may be. We need to engage in selfless spiritual practice, and that takes some discipline.
Spiritual practice is about seeing Reality just as it is, including our own self-deception.
It is about seeing how we fool our self, how we cover up the way we are if we think it doesn't fit our image of how we would like to appear. Spiritual practice is the way we expose the ego and the ways we allow emotions to romanticize our life. Then we can be honest with our self and understand how human nature gets in trouble. Then we can be helpful. Archives of past commentaries.