Why should you even consider when you disagree with someone that the disagreement must be a symptom of your futile ego's asserting itself? You could be asserting truth. Of course, the possibility always exists that your ego is piqued and wants its way, but why is that your first consideration? Have a little more faith in your ideas and where you stand.

It could be ego. It could also be Truth. And, of course, it could be relative amounts of each. It could be. But why not consider first, if only for a moment, that it is Truth you are sticking up for and not your ego. Do not regard your ego so highly. It is not always your front-runner. It is not always sitting in the High Chair. You are more than the frills of your ego.

Doesn't it seem, at least sometimes, that you denounce yourself too quickly? As if what you discern must be secondary to what someone else discerns, as if someone else's opinions and suggestions are automatically more worthy than yours.

Starting right now, give due to your heart. Give it full value. When you attribute more regard to your true heart, ego is less supreme. When you do not respect yourself enough, that's when ego rushes in with relish to get you off-track and enhance itself.

When concern for ego is out of the way, hearts speak. They do not have to agree, but everything becomes simple. Opinions are tossed up, and some are caught. And some are discarded.

Everything you say is no more right because you say it than it is wrong because you say it.

How easy it is when thoughts are communicated and not bought or sold! When thoughts come from the sense of your heart, they are fluid. They are like a song that goes out but does not have to lock in. But all the notes are heard. The song was played, and the song was heard. It sang its tune and had its say on the screen of the universe. Nothing was a trade-off. All was heard.

So you need to regard your heart more highly, not your ego, but your heart. When you speak your heart's truth, you will hear it better. You'd better hear it. So you must speak, and you must hear. Do not abdicate your heart's call too quickly.

Nor is there need for you to be so suspicious that another's ego is at play either. Dispense with all this honor of ego. Consider that you and everyone else are ego-less. Go by that premise. See what happens. Ego looks for itself to star. Do not bow down to it, in yourself or in another. Relegate ego to the sidelines. Let it be a wallflower. And it will fade. It will take its leave. Permit it. Give it its space.

Without your eyes on it, ego has to abscond.

Consider today that you are an egoless being, which, in truth, you are. This prod you call ego has nothing to do with you. That is just the point. It is separate from you. It is nothing. It is nothing more than a bauble, and yet you have bowed to it like a mighty King. Ego only wears the trappings. It is nothing but an imposter, a gnat that crosses your brow. You may have upheld the costume it wears. Ego is only costume. Throw out all costumes. You need no pretender to the Throne. And truth needs no throne. It only needs itself.