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Ego-reduction

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"Ego-reduction requires intelligence and the grace of God right from the beginning. Courage and willingness to suffer are needed, but they are not enough.

You have to learn how to work along with it as the job is being done.

It is a skilled operation, and the skill can only be acquired slowly, by actual experience, by trial and error.


The practice of the presence of God and the practice of ego-reduction are complementary and mutually interdependent experiences.

If you practice the presence you will find ,as a corollary, that your ego has been reduced. If you work at dissolving the ego, you will find that the presence of God consequently becomes more real to you."

Thomas E. Powers, "First Questions on the Life of the Spirit," 1987, Self-Realization Fellowship Magazine