"Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am."
— Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak
Self-will tends to move in the opposite direction — toward deciding, planning, shaping. There can be a kind of urgency to it, as if the life in front of us is a problem to be solved before it gets away. The listening Palmer describes is a different movement entirely. Not passive, but patient. A willingness to receive what is already being said before speaking over it.
What our lives are telling us may not always be flattering or convenient. There may be things we have been quietly moving past for a long time. But there is something in simply turning toward that quieter signal — the one beneath the noise of what we think we should want — that tends to feel more honest than almost anything else.
Egos Anonymous is offered in an experimental spirit—an invitation to see whether there’s interest in a shared way of working with ego, self-will, and control. The language, structure, and practices are still forming and are meant to grow through lived experience.
This is a soft launch. The hope is to eventually gather a year of reflections into a book, but for now they’re simply being shared—one day at a time—to see what resonates.
If something feels useful, confusing, incomplete, or off, feedback is welcome and genuinely appreciated. This work is meant to be shaped together.
