How to Get a Kick Out of Praise and Blame

When that tension ceases, you discover immediately that the separate ego has disappeared. What I refer to is simply the total panorama of experience, everything that's happening. We know it in a much better way as we know how to grow hair and open and close our hands. So this point of view can be understood if we clarify the initial problems we have about it. If we accept the notion that everything that happens to us is our own karma, our own doing, then we have to be very careful of the devil of omnipotence.