Broken Open Part 8 of 8: Guarding the Eggs
September 22, 2009 by dr. lam
Man: Doc, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken.
Psychiatrist: Well, why don’t you turn him in?
Man: I would, but I need the eggs.
-Woody Allen
Sometimes we are like the man who does not want to turn his brother in because we need the eggs. What eggs? Our own illusion of our self-fabricated lives. We rather hold onto a worn-out illusion because it is easier than force ourselves to change or to see ourselves differently. As Lesser says, “We don’t want to consider that perhaps we’re wrong about a couple of things: perhaps our victim stance is a cover-up; maybe our ex or our boss or our parent is not the monster we’ve made them out to be. Maybe we need to ask ourselves, What’s in it for us to keep seeing the world in a certain light? What eggs do we think we need?”
Lesser warns that we also should not be trying to court catastrophe in hopes that we can have an incredible divine rod hit us from above. We are not more or less special because of a certain circumstance that has befallen us. Instead, we can glean from the myriad large and small “encumbrances” that affect our daily lives and that can provide grist for the mill. We should be alert for life’s messages to help guide us in our journey. If we are broken open, then we can learn from not being broken down. If we have not been broken open, we can still be our own catalyst for change so that we do not continue to guard our own precious illusory eggs.
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Wow, Dr. Lam! What are you some kind of a genius or something coming up with all these insightful blog topics!? I know, I know, you’re getting these ideas from books, but still! Great insight!