Depression: Grieving the Death of Your Ego

When you lose all hope, this actually may not be a bad thing.

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I think the goal for all of us, via the many pathways of our individual lives, is to find nirvana. We have to seek bliss — enlightenment. And the way to do that is very simple but very difficult for us humans: we have to release attachments to things. We must let go of the ego.

Since 99.99% of all people around us are fully plugged into the matrix and are mindlessly attached to all kinds of things, it’s hard for one person within the system to let go. There’s no message on TV telling you how great it is to stop being attached to material possessions. Our therapists don’t want us to stop being attached to relationships. Teachers have endlessly encouraged us to be attached to our identities. It’s hard to break free.

There are many people in the world who make money off of what we are trained to be attached to — literally banking on our egos. Reality isn’t set up to let us look at things in another way.

Normally, when you break free from ego attachments, you stop worrying about stuff. But sometimes the process is super depressing.