Paradoxically, when the ego is “smaller,” life actually becomes “bigger and better.”
The Smaller, The Better
by Paul Kowalewski
As I went around watering some of the pots in our garden yesterday, I noticed that one tiny little flower had sprung up from a bristly cactus. The little flower was so simple, so small, and so tenderly beautiful.
It grabbed my total attention, and I had to simply stop and gaze at it. That one tiny cactus flower became an icon for me of what a “spiritual” journey is all about. That one little flower pointed a “way” for me.
As I see it, the direction of any spiritual quest usually runs directly against the grain of popular culture. On my spiritual journey, I find that I am always “going against the traffic,” which is probably why the spiritual path is often the road less traveled.
We live in a culture driven by the ethic of “the bigger, the better.” We are told that success and happiness are gained by going up the ladder. We strive to attend bigger and better schools and colleges so that we can land bigger and better jobs that will allow individuals to have more and more control, and this will lead to bigger bank accounts, so that we can live in bigger and better homes and have all sorts of bigger and better “stuff.”
The road of everyday popular culture flows in the direction of the “ego.” It’s no wonder there are so many narcissists around today.
But I know lots of people on that road to “bigger and better” who are ultimately quite unhappy, often kind of empty. When you live your life within the walls of your own ego, there aren’t many other people around to live life with you- it’s a pretty lonely place to be. The fact is that the road to “bigger and better” very often leads to a dead-end. READ MORE
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