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that there is nothing except matter, that only means that he has used the analytical method -- nothing else. When someone says there is no matter, but only consciousness, it only shows that he has used the method of synthesis -- not analysis.
Freud used analysis as a methodology; then he couldn't conceive that there is any soul, any divine element in man. But another psychologist, Assagioli, is now using synthesis as a method, and he says: There is no body, only the spirit, only the consciousness. Whenever someone asserts matter or consciousness, it means a particular method for the search has been used.
Logic is analysis -- love is synthesis.
That's why religion has always been illogical, and science always loveless.
To be identified with something which you are not, is the formation of the ego. Ego means to be identified with something you are not.
Whatsoever one is needs no identification.
You need not be identified with it: You are already it.
So whenever there is any identification, it means WITH something else -- that you are not. One can be identified with the body, with the mind. But the moment one is identified, one is lost to oneself. This is what ego means. This is how ego is formed and becomes crystallized.
Whenever you assert "I," there is identification with something -- with some name, with some form, with some body, with some past; with mind, with thoughts, with memories. There is some deep identification: only then you can assert "I." If you are not identified with anything else and can remain with yourself, then you cannot say "I"; the "I" just drops.
"I" means identity.
Identity is the basis of all slavery:
Be identified and you will be in a prison.
The very identity will become your prison. Be non-identified, remain totally yourself, and then there is freedom. So this is what bondage is: Ego is the bondage, and egolessness is freedom. And this ego is nothing but to be identified with something that you are not. For example, everyone is identified with his name; and everyone is born without any name. Then the name becomes so significant that one can die for his
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