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too egoistic, well, one receives knocks on the nose, because,
since everyone is egoistic, no one much likes egoism in others.
It is taken for granted, it is part of public morality. Yes, one
must be a little bit egoistic, not too much, so it is not conspicu-
ous! On the other hand, nobody speaks of the ego, because
nobody knows it. It is such an intimate companion that one
does not even recognise its existence; and yet so long as it is
there one will never have the divine consciousness.

The Sense of Separation
The ego is what makes one conscious of being separate from
others. If there were no ego, you would not perceive that you
are a person separate from others. You would have the impres-
sion that you are a small part of a whole, a very small part of a
very great whole. On the other hand, every one of you is most
certainly quite conscious of being a separate person. Well, it is
the ego that gives you this impression. As long as you are con-
scious in this way, it means that you have an ego.
When you begin to be aware that everything is yourself,
and that this is only a very small point in the midst of thou-
sands and thousands of other points of the same person that
you are everywhere, when you feel that you are yourself in ev-
erything and that there is no separation, then you know that
you are on the way towards having no more ego.
There even comes a time when it is impossible to conceive
oneself and say, “It is not I”, for even to express it in this way,
to say that the All is you, that you are the All or that you are
the Divine or that the Divine is you, proves that something still
remains.
There is a moment — this happens in a flash and can hardly
stay — when it is the All that thinks, it is the All that knows, it is
the All that feels, it is the All that lives. There is not even... not

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