Two of Nature’s Most Powerful Forces: Black Holes and The Ego – Step 3

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How have you kept your own ego from swallowing up and crushing everything and everyone around you, lately?

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What happens when we let go of needing to be in charge all the time?

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Ancient Fables: Pride has a Fall (1:47)

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Black Holes and Worm Holes (2:44)

Cosmic Mist Meditation from Space (7:01)

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Black holes are powerful, mysterious forces in the universe. The ego can be just as powerful in our personal lives. Both can pull everything inward and leave little light or space for others. In The Big Book, self-image is described as an actor grabbing all attention, causing confusion instead of harmony. This reflects Carl Jung’s idea that the ego resists surrender, clinging to control. Jung believed we must face and tame the ego to find wholeness.

Step Three of the Twelve Steps calls for letting go of ego. It invites us to turn our will over to a higher power. This echoes Thomas Merton’s belief that spiritual growth begins when we stop centering life around ourselves. The It Works, How & Why book explains that we need guidance to live this way. Sponsors help shift our focus from ego to spirit. This process requires humility, honesty, and openness to change.

Jean Toomer urges us to welcome those who point out our faults. This echoes Brené Brown’s idea that true courage means being vulnerable. Admitting ego-driven mistakes is tough, but it opens the door to healing. When we stop controlling everything, we become more available to others. We grow in gratitude and peace.

Just as black holes bend light, ego can distort truth. But unlike black holes, we can choose a different path. Step Three helps us make that choice.

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4 responses to “Two of Nature’s Most Powerful Forces: Black Holes and The Ego – Step 3”

  1. Sabrina J Avatar
    Sabrina J

    I am thankful to my HP that I am not in charge or everything, what a heavy burden that would be. I am responsible for me and my interactions with life. Beyond that, I must remember everyday to let go and let God(HP) It is in the surrender as discussed in step 1. My HP knows that which to me is a mystery. Thank you HP for leading me through the fog.

  2. Love Avatar
    Love

    How have you kept your own ego from swallowing up and crushing everything and everyone around you, lately?

    -By realizing and finally accepting as hard as it can be to accept; that some places or people are hell on earth (from your unique perspective). And their only purpose is to awaken heaven, to awaken the heaven in you, and the heaven on earth. Separation is there to teach us oneness.

  3. Love Avatar
    Love

    I’m starting to realize that when we let go of the need to be in control all the time, something sacred happens. We begin to understand the power of our energy. And not just the power but the sacredness of it.

    With that awareness, we stop wasting energy on what doesn’t belong to us. We begin investing it in what truly matters. We become intentional. We stop getting drained by people or situations that pull us out of alignment.

    Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is surrender
    Surrender to life
    To the flow
    To what is right

    Trying to control certain people in my life has pulled me away from myself. I’ve gotten swallowed in their emotional dimensions and in the process, I lost my own. I stopped living in my universe and started surviving in theirs.

    But when I take charge of my emotions, when I prioritize my peace above all else, something shifts. I come home to myself. I stop trying to manage dysfunction and instead allow myself to release it.

    I don’t need to control dysfunctional people or dysfunctional environments. I am worthy of peaceful loving spaces. I am worthy of joy. I am worthy of heaven.

    And I no longer need to manage or control hell.

  4. E-Dawg Avatar
    E-Dawg

    When my pride and ego kick in that’s when things start to fray. Step 3 requires me to admit that I need God to control my own recovery by making the decision.

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