"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
— Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace
Most of us were trained to hope for outcomes. To hope that things resolve, improve, soften. When they don't, hope can feel like it has failed. Self-will and hope can get tangled together — hope becomes another form of trying to secure the future, to hold the right expectations until reality cooperates.
What Havel points toward is something sturdier and stranger. Not confidence in a particular result, but a kind of orientation — a sense that even the difficult and unresolved is somehow held within something coherent. That may not always be felt. But it may not need to be felt in order to be quietly true.
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.
