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Ego, I am

Ego.  This 'I' in us, we cannot win it over, while we try to win over everything else. Sufi poet Bulleshah writes "Eh, Bullaya, everyday, you are fighting with the devil,  but why don't you fight with your ego?  You try to gain every knowledge in the world to become an intellectual, but why don't you try to read yourself?"  All the time, you keep going to a temple, or a mosque, Why don't you try to get into your own heart!" Yes, that is so true, and worth thinking, exploring, this urge that is in us to always think of I makes us keep repeating  I, I, I, me, me, me Mine, mine, mine,  and forces us to think that  I am right I did this, It is only because of me,  I am the only one who can ... It is said that the ego shell is the hardest shell to break out of, to grow out, to get bigger than this shell, which binds you!!  As in fact this 'I' in us is nothing,  At the first sight of love, it hides At the door of almighty God, it disappears! A...

You don't know and, I can't understand

Who am I ? You don't know Maybe you don't want to Don't need to or cannot  know. And  Who you are,  I want to I need to I can know. But I don't try  to know!!  Too hard Too much work Too little time Too much to do Too much to give in So,  we give up!  As to do so. You need to re-centre  I need to re-focus So we can find each other.