~Lessons Learned~

The story of our past that we use to define and identify ourselves.  It is identified with form, whether material, physical or thought.  We allow our thoughts to run rapid in our minds and intensify them with emotion; ultimately sending our egos into the "I" living, instead of "I am".   Once we understand that form is fleeting, illusive and always changing, we understand that our ego will always search for what it feels is missing inside and when we interact or live in ego we live in fear.  The fear increases and fuels our ego allowing us to live in the negative state of mind.  We will use others, the adage of get them before they get me and ultimately find ourselves in gossip, judgment, and labeling of others (from our own self made story) to lift us or make us superior, if even in our own minds.  Whatever you fight, strengthens and what you resist, persists.  We are so busy trying to feed our egos by rising above others that we tend to overlook what we are