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Ego's Story-Time
-By Katie Davis


Thought seems to begin in one moment and after certain duration, it
ends in another. This gives the impression of thought's movement
through space. We define this progression as time. However, the
timeless Truth of being is not in movement at all. It is absolutely
immovable and underlies the conception of time. The gift of this
motionless dimension is that consciousness has the play of motion.
You would not be able to perceive progression, without the still
background that sustains it.

Memory is recalling a past mental image that occurred within
chronological time. Once the incident has transpired, it innocently
remains nothing more than a notch on a historical dateline. In other
words, the mental image is no longer a current affair. It merely
remains a picture in the head. After a circumstance is judged as
negative, the dilemma seems to be that we become a storyteller about the dire emotional impact of the mental image. Initially, processing our feelings might be quite helpful. However, even as adults, many are still retelling a painful childhood story or a tale about a former mate, an unfair job situation or other aching memory. In our willingness to endlessly repeat a hurtful story, we are keeping our pain alive and thereby experience recurrent suffering. The past mental image itself is harmless, even in the horror of its original pain. Ultimately, we cannot keep our painful story and get rid of the pain.

When the ego believes that it has learned something psychologically, it crystallizes the experience by creating a story. Storytelling is an enduring reinforcement for our past torment. Please recognize that the storyteller is none other than the ego, which can only seem to exist within time. This storyteller is the actual root of our misery. Even though the false image of self mourns that it cannot escape, its fixation on the pain of the past can only ensure more torture. It is also ego's self-serving strategy in that it needs this story in order to maintain the delusion of its existence. Without the story, we would quickly recognize that the ego simply does not exist. We would also observe that we are truly timeless and already free of the pain. In the power of timelessness, nothing is broken and nothing needs to be fixed. Furthermore, this discovery opens the door to true forgiveness for yourself or others.

Really, without your storyteller, where is your painful story?

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