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Distraction - The Ego's Favorite Defense Mechanism

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

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The Real Distraction

Everything you're doing in your life has the big pitcher goal of distracting you from discovering existential truth. That's what the business, the business of life is about. The ego creates all these things to keep you from really doing the inner that you got to do to become conscious in life. People misunderstand this notion of distraction, because they think aall well, a distraction is a very frivolous thing. To have a really high quality distraction, you distract yourself not with a frivolous thing. You distract yourself with the most important thing in the world.

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