LPT: When your spirits are low, try lifting someone else's to lift your own

Exactly! The ego is feeding its self. By doing kind acts for others you are literally giving your own ego the thought that you are a good person for helping others and should feel good. That's just the way the ego naturally functions. Egos are naturally selfish because they are all afraid of the moment when they cease to exist (death). And all egos die. Humans are not however. Humans are just animals/machines. The brain is simply a balance of chemicals, but it can create extraordinary thoughts. You aren't creating those thoughts however, the mind is. You are just choosing to use your animals mind in a way that will create those thoughts. You are literally choice. You are the soul, which is located in your chest area. You are not the mind. Stop trying to control it! Let it function smoothly, in the moment. Choose to live through your soul in the moment, not through an animals fear controlled ego. The ego is literally created by your animals mind and now you're choosing to live through it instead of your true self. The soul is not to be defined as good or evil it is just the true you and if you choose to live through it, you will be truly happy. True happiness has nothing to do with a brain releasing a chemical to make an animal feel good. True happiness is only reachable with the soul in the moment. It is called bliss. That's why you see rich and famous humans destroying themselves and becoming unhappy. They are literally choosing to live through their animals ego, which forces their animals mind down a path of thought that leads them to the conclusion that they are doing the "right" thing even when that path of thought could be leading the animal to its own destruction (Plastic surgery).

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