Choosing Awareness Over Control The identity kneels at the edge of the ocean, hammer in hand, attempting to nail something steady into the shifting shoreline. This is the ego at work. It’s not evil, not wrong, just instinctive. The ego is designed to create structure, meaning, and safety. It wants permanence where there is none. In the spiritual awakening process, the ego becomes the part of us desperately trying to hold together the identities and stories we’ve built, even

Your safety is not rehearsed. It is remembered.