"I’m going to prove how great I am by lying to everybody.” Our politicians do it all it time, claim victories out of defeat... We all have a not-self. It is our shadow. And if any of you have an open, undefined Heart Center, this is the dark spot in the shadow, it really is... Lack of worthiness is almost like a plague in the mind. One can never shake it off. There is always this sense that one must, must, must.... This is the “I have to” of the world. I have to be in control (21). I have to prove my worthiness by being brave (51). I have to lie in order to show everybody the potential of my greatness (26). I have to pretend to agree (40).
The (Open Ego) Mantra: I Do Not Have to Prove Anything How healing it is, how incredibly healing it is if you have an open Heart Center to have the mantra in your life that says: “I do not have to prove anything to anyone for any reason under any circumstances.” It’s simple. “I do not have to prove ANYTHING to ANYONE under ANY circumstances.” It’s not you. It’s not you. So, there’s no you to prove anything in that. It has nothing to do with you. It’s a gift.
From my perspective as an ego being, it would be nice to have a break from having to prove all the time. It’s an enormous pressure. It’s a gift. It means you (Open Egos) don’t have anything to prove about yourself, about the way you are, the way you live, the way you think, the way you see, the way you feel, what you do, who you’re with. All predicated on you operating correctly as yourself. It’s only your mind that thinks you—and your mind does not know you—that you have something to prove. And your whole life is spent kissing ass for that over and over and over and over again to try to drag out of somebody that little compliment, that pat on the back, that whatever. Jesus, it is not worth it. This is the “worth” business. It has nothing to do with the open Heart Center, or the open Heart Center being. Nothing. And how incredibly powerful the not-self is out of this nothing, how it twists the way the majority of humanity thinks. The madness of what it is to live in a world where people think everything has to be controlled. Where how valuable you are as a being is based on how stupidly you’re willing to act. How mindless you’re willing to be in the name of some illusion of worthiness. How you and others share in the same lie over and over again, to prove worthiness. Like these companies that tell you they’re making 18 billion and they’ve actually stolen 20. This is our planet.