Defending Your Ideas So Hard · Blinded by Ego Preservation
⁘ “We "get it" — because rational constructs and emotional resonance. When your sense of identity is validated by the ideas you get — you start holding on to them and defending them. You blind yourself to reality — and get nothing at all.”
Now these two, the rational construct and the emotional resonance,
that's not to say they cannot be helpful.
But they cannot become the definitive form of understanding.
When your ego kicks in, when your sense of identity is validated
by these intellectual constructs, by these emotional vibes.
When your identity fuses with your getting an idea,
but not really,
then that fusion you defend with vigor.
It becomes a matter of your self-preservation.
When this happens, you definitely are not getting anything at all beyond your little box.
You blind yourself to new insight, new information.
You even blind yourself to the reality of what is,
because your idea needs to hold, your feeling needs to hold.
By the way, that makes you utterly lost as to what actually is.