' The ego does die '...

The ego does die, but it is not what many think.

The caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, dies to its old form and can never go back to being a caterpillar.

Yet, if you look closely, the main body of it still retains its caterpillar form.

Recognize that you are an ego and do not pretend to have wings by using non-duality jargon.

You intuit the source within; now offer yourself in deep surrender as ego incarnate to the fire of grace.

It is this fire which burns away all that is exclusive and leaves in its place a refined personality under the sole sovereignty of Non-Conceptual Truth, which makes the will of the individual the will of the One.


-Atreya Thomas