The answers are within you !

[gerrerd]

You can find it outside of you !

[Dolphin14]

Birds, trees, flowers .,., they have no competitor in them. They do their own thing because they have no outside influence. A rose doesn't compete with a sunflower. They just do what they do. No ego. Ego makes us want for things we don't have. It makes us want to compete etc.

Lose the ego.... Find the happiness

❤️🐬

[gerrerd in reply to Dolphin14]

Just be here now ! as Ram Das says ! ❤️🤗😇

[Dolphin14 in reply to gerrerd]

Well yes that's true. But ego makes people want more and more and they believe that is the key to happiness. It's not. We can be here now. But if we don't address ego we will not settle into the life that is here for us. We won't be present.

💕🐬

[gerrerd in reply to Dolphin14]

True, there is a good ego and a bad ego ! balance is the key, we need that drive to get things done and not just let the world dictate to us ! with everything in life its a balance, ying and yang we need both ! ❤️🤗😇

[Dolphin14 in reply to gerrerd]

Agree

My comment was more to the destructive force behind ego.

❤️🐬

[gerrerd in reply to Dolphin14]

I know, ❤️❤️❤️

[Nothing_but_books]

Have you never heard a dog howl out in loss?

I share my home with a parrot. She taught me some of her language, and believe me, she is sad sometimes. She understands when I am hurt, and she responds, too.

The trees themselves, how do we know what they sense as their life is taken from them?

We share so many emotions in common with the animals that live on our planet. That's where the comfort is for me: we are not alone in what we feel.

[gerrerd in reply to Nothing_but_books]

The trick is to take all the good that comes with the bad ! and turn it into success ! Ray