Getting over ourselves

I went to a wonderful talk by Caroline Myss at the end of February in London in which she said 'We need to get over ourselves'. I knew what she meant and yet, paradoxically, what did she mean? To me she meant we that we need to get over our ego self because it is the ego that creates our problems. Our ego is the part of us that seeks to prove, to promote, to defend, to impress... it takes offence very easily, blames others for all our problems, believes we are right and others are wrong. So if there is any good to come out of this pandemic which has stopped the entire world in its tracks and created a 'global pause' as Marianne Williamson calls it, it is that it has given us some time to reflect on ourselves and our attitudes and behaviours, to think about the ego's sense of entitlement which has allowed us to plunder the planet for all its resources and yet, instead of feeling appreciative, we more often than not become frustrated that we can't have everything our own way. No-one and nothing is above the laws of nature and if we learn anything from this whole experience it must be that. That we are part of nature, not superior to it. And part of our nature, the nature of mankind as a species, is that we develop an ego which is why, if we want to understand humanity, we have to learn how the ego operates in us. This pandemic is our lesson, if we choose to learn from it, to think differently and to change. I think this is nature's way of providing humanity with a window of opportunity to step back from the brink of our own destruction. It is giving us the opportunity to get over ourselves.