There comes a point in our journey to fully excavate ego, where we must be willing to be taken to the ultimate edge of our psychological fear(s), teeter there as our inner thoughts scream to retreat back into the safety of the known, and somehow gather the courage to fully face these fears, such that they dissolve into the light of truth.

Being able to do this is mastering fear…the primary goal of our inner journey.

It challenges our reliance on our greatest psychological comforts…all the things we’re falsely relying on to know ourselves. I say “falsely relying on” because they are the very things that hold our ego in place, and thus, block us from knowing ourselves beyond ego.

This is extremely scary, however, it’s absolutely necessary to face if we’re ever to know ourselves beyond the confines of our ego.

In the beginning, it’s (relatively) easy to let go of aspects of ourselves that we’ve discovered as being “our ego”, because we’re only dealing with the initial layers of ego, but the more layers to the onion that we peel back, the harder it is to let go.

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