#egoatwork

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#ego #thePresent #theFuture #thePast #worrying #awareness #thoughts #egoAtWork #payingAttentionToThePresent #mindfulness #meditation #zenmister #zenwords If you are worrying about the future, or worrying about the past, that is your ego building itself up. The ego is what holds on to the past and projects itself into the future. Your ego thinks of ways that it will be hurt, or has been hurt, and it alerts you to this danger with worry. In the present, there is just your awareness of what is happening. If you watch for your ego and for the present moment, eventually your ego will contract and the present will expand. Someday you may only have the present. Until then, pay attention to both.

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#ego #thePresent #beingPresentInAConversation #listenThenSpeak #thoughts #egoAtWork #payingAttentionToThePresent #mindfulness #meditation #zenmister #zenwords To be present in a conversation, you listen and then speak. When the other person is speaking, you just listen. If you are listening to what the other person is saying and thinking of what you want to say back, that is your ego butting in.

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#ego #thePresent #watchingYourEgo #payAttentionToYourThoughts #thoughts #egoAtWork #payingAttentionToThePresent #mindfulness #meditation #zenmister #zenwords To focus on the present and watch your ego at the same time, just pay attention to your thoughts. If you are focused on what you are doing, you won’t notice your thoughts so much. When you start to notice your thoughts, you can see your ego at work.