[greybeard]

This question was asked of Dr David Hawkins in the book "I ----chapter On the way of the heart"

Q: How can one prevent the development of a spiritual ego? Each success seems like it would feed into it.

A: "Realize that there is no such entity as the doer of deeds or actions.
There is no doer/self to take to take blame or credit.
Progress is the result of a quality of consciousness that has been activated by the assent of the spiritual will.
Spiritual inspiration becomes the energy that is operating. It does not eminate from ego/self.
The Self, like the divinity of God does not "do" anything, nor does it 'act' or 'perform' or 'intend' or 'chose'.
for it is beyond all volition. The manifestation of God as Existence is void of conditions or positionalities.

The purity of Divinity is beyond comprehension by the ego because ego is limited to form and always asumes a duality of subject and object.
That which is the Unlimited nonlinear Reality is not divisible and is beyond the subject/object duality of the ego's conceptions based on positionality. All spiritual progress is a gift, and humble gratitude precludes pride."

Chris says.
At first it is difficult to wrap ones head around the concept of non-duality but bit by bit the clarity of Hawkins teaching drops in.
One without a second as spoke of by spiritual mystics is an absolute truth. Only God is, and we are That.

more from Dr David Hawkins.

Enlightenment means that the former personal identity and all that had been believed about have been erased, removed, dissolved, and displaced.
The particular has been replaced by the universal, qualities have been replaced by essence, the linear has been replaced by the nonlinear, and the discrete has been replaced by the unlimited. position in time or place has become Allness and Foreverness.
Intention has been replaced by spontaneity, and the limiting perception of duality has been removed as the Radiance of Oneness illuminates the Reality and the Truth of nonduality.
The essence of Divinity stands forth in its Self-revelation. Mentation has ceased and in the Silence, the Knowingness of Omniscience radiates forth unasked.
Emotion has been replaced by Peace. The exquisite gentleness of Infinite Power is deftly soft and invisible because it is the very Source and substrate of all that appears to exist. By analogy, it is like a shadow which is replaced by a sunbeam. The shadow does not become the sunbeam.

Chris