The Ego: May it Live Long and Prosper!

As a student of spirituality, I've read a lot throughout the years about the dangers of ego, how it destroys our lives and keeps us from being fulfilled spiritually. But I have to admit that none of it made much sense to me really, either as a concept, or as any kind of practical application that would improve my day-to-day life. One day, though, I realized that I had been thinking about it all wrong, that trying to rid myself of ego wasn't the way to go at all. In this post, I explain why.