Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf Lose your ego, find your compassion

The door swings open, and the voice says, Come in, for there is no room in this house for two I's, two capital I's, not these eyes for two egos.

Human nature ego and or arrogance does the rest.

They had been irreparably traumatized and scarred, forced to live in constant fear, insecurity and turmoil.

In the presence of God, there is no room for more than one I, and that is the I of divinity.

We have reached a stage in human history that we have no option we must, we must lower our egos, control our egos whether it is individual ego, personal ego, family ego, national ego and let all be for the glorification of the one.

It was further reported that his relatives were not authorized to visit him until 26 October 2003, when they could see signs of bruises on his face and other signs of ill treatment and torture on his body.

Moreover, a nation s irrational dreamwork often reflects its actual condition more truthfully than its ego its official pronouncements, diplomatic statements, and propaganda.

That reception was, of course, intended to nurture India s collective ego, which had sensed a Sino centric tilt to American policy ever since Obama became president.

And the third level is reflective, which is, if you like the superego, it's a little part of the brain that has no control over what you do, no control over the doesn't see the senses, doesn't control the muscles.

But I think the worst kind of fear is the fear as Samia, a Bosnian woman, once told me, who survived the four years besiege of Sarajevo she said, The fear of losing the 'I' in me, the fear of losing the 'I' in me.

In this sense, what is called ego or the self is merely a convenient fiction, an illusion that does not apply to anything real but to an erroneous way of looking at the ever changing stream of five interconnected aggregate factors.

Instead of ignoring the other (the American way) or lamenting a wounded ego (the European way), they should confront the common challenges they face as a result of a globalization process that they are no longer able to master.

NEW YORK Do nations have psychological processes even Freudian processes, such as collective egos that can be injured, and repressed guilt feelings that can well up from the collective unconscious just as individuals do? I believe that they do.

One problem that psychology has had is instead of looking at this intersubjectivity or the importance of the social brain to humans who come into the world helpless and need each other tremendously is that they focus instead on the self and self esteem, and not self other.