I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo _ even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
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The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo _ even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.
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