Ego-Consciousness

Michael Peach

Is ego-consciousness a curse,
To some the message of The Fall,
Or would in fact our lot be worse
Were unreflective instinct all?

Michael Peach
Jerusalem
21 August 2009

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Let’s be straight. Although you deny it, In practice you’ve