Aerobics for the Ego -- Part 15

It really is a kind of theme of these Deadly Sins. They are all ways of making the ego stronger. When we identify with them.

We're going to do it, we're going to compare, for example. I think someone once said "All comparisons are odious." Maybe it was me in an earlier post, but John Lydgate in his Debate between the horse, goose, and sheep, circa 1440 is the first recorded use. Shakespeare even uses it in Much Ado About Nothing.

We're in good company!

When we compare we are of necessity in the past. Otherwise, there is nothing to which to compare the present moment. But really, at the time of the comparison, the NOW in which we find ourselves has nothing to do with either of the things being compared.

You go out to dinner to a favorite restaurant. In most cases something will be different from the way you remembered the last visit. And the comparison starts. Either this visit was better than the last or not as good. Rarely does the mind settle for "sameness" because mind made ego is always looking for more. More better. More worse.