Obstacles To Awakening
Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings
The Ego Loves Complaining
You can complain about what you're doing. You're doing it but don't want to be doing it but you're doing it. It's a very dysfunctional state to be in but the ego loves it. And then you complain about a place where you are. Some people never really want to be where they are. But even if you complain, you can still feel yourself your superior to this place that you're complaining about. So criticizing another human being by implication, you have made yourself morally superior because you're pronouncing judgment. This is an egoic device. It's unconscious. It strengthens your false sense of self and this is why the ego loves complaining.
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