Hello out there,

I find it astonishing how smart and sneaky the ego/mind is to keep us thinking and mentally busy - and therefore distract us from just being.

This one just came my way:
"I am thinking and acting oneness, but the other person doesn't, so I am better than him/her" ... sure

Basically anything that blocks a situation or relationship is mind or ego (I use them both describing the same thing - our identification with thought). Speaking of blocking: Sometimes it feels right not to obey to a certain behavior or pattern - if we did we would give it energy and make it real. This way we can't break through. On the other hand: I guess resistance is just the start - there is awareness about this pattern and there is a halt, but keeping resisting it makes it real as well. So we've got to move on from there. We have to solve the pattern to get rid of it ultimately. Still trying to figure out how I do that with certain things myself, so no big suggestions here. I'll try to just sit with it, meditate on it and let it go. That might work already...