Humility - Breathing Past Ego

Today I remember to be humble. That's when it becomes possible to let go, either learn to fly or let myself be cradled and carried by angels.

I know it's corny to refer to angels. It takes even more guts to admit that we might need some help in aligning ourselves to what's happening here and now. Letting go can be super scary, and the fear response, to the prompt to release, let go into the holy now, is to contract, hang on for dear life. After all angels aren't really real, are they? Flying is impossible, so it's often easier to hang onto our vanity and stay up tight.

It takes a certain amount of humility to be open and brave about what is happening around us. The ego is very afraid of what it cannot control, even and especially of our own success. If we succeed we may discover we don't need it. The ego craves accolades, yes, but not in the positive aspect of our fulfillment. When we become who we really are the ego hears its death toll. After all, ego is the anathema to what is real, and so it puts up smoke screens - and it has an endless supply of those. Once you figure it out, "oh that's my ego kicking in there, trying to hold me to a set schedule," it will simply roll out new distractions.

The closer we get to completion, to a full understanding of what is happening and who we are, the more adamant the ego becomes with its devices against us. The key to our survival is recognition then; we can laugh at the ego's devices, recognize them over and over for what they are, and then allow ourselves to be humbled before the reality that will exalt us, before the angels who will catch us and teach us to fly.

We will stop being trapped then, stop running around in circles once we recognize the circles of ego for what they are. We have a choice. We can be humble and we can be brave.

Today I remind myself that what is not real can never hurt me. Today I remember humility, to breathe and open up to what's real, to accept that recognition.