' Anthony Damiani from Standing in Your Own Way '...

No ego is going to surrender itself unless it has reached the profoundest level of understanding. That comes either through the satiation of experience or this profundity of understanding, where the ego then realizes that it has to make that effort. And of course, Grace will have to come in to help it, but this is the point we're getting at, all right?


So after that point is reached, when the ego does reach that point, and it's willing to surrender itself and Grace does intervene, then enlightenment occurs. Now, we've got to stop right here, because then if you say, "Who is enlightened?" it is not the ego, it is the Void Mind itself that has recognized itself through that ego.

But I want to stop right there. You've got to realize the terrible orders he's giving you. I mean, this is an ordeal. The ego has to refine itself. Nobody else is going to do it. No one else is going to teach you. Isn't that the point of the quote?


quote referred to:

"ALTHOUGH we may grant the fact that it is the ego which is seeking truth, we must insist on the completing truth that the ego is never the finder of truth".
(v6, 8:4.440)