People have sacred experiences that aren't necessarily connected with any religious belief. So much of the difficult part of ego is that we feel not so much so that we even get defensive by trying to be bad ass, like we're trying to be bad just as a defence against the despair of feeling the loss of goodness. When we are not present that beautiful heart connection, we can't it. And if i can affect beyond that, so much the better. It's like being a warrior for goodness. But again, the ego, in trying to do that, tends to create even more problems for myself and others. I become kind of rigid, kind of testy, impatient, sometimes judgmental...