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Distraction - The Ego's Favorite Defense Mechanism

Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

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Is There a Distraction?

Your very existence is predicated upon an illusion. A distraction works like this, we make some noise over there so that no one looks over here, and then we stall out the clock. That's the ego's game here. To win the game, the ego, by which i mean you, you not some part, but you, you merely need to stall out theClock. So you distract yourself for 50, 60 years of your life. And then by that point,. you're too old, you're too sick, you'retoo stubborn. You're too mentally rigid to care about anything. And then you die, and that's the end of the game. And the ego won

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