"Above all, trust in the slow work of God."
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, from a letter, 1961
The full letter from which this comes was written to a young woman navigating a period of uncertainty. What Teilhard describes is not patience as a virtue to be practiced, but something more like permission—to stop requiring change to happen on our schedule. Self-will tends to set timelines. When things don't move as expected, it can interpret the delay as failure, or as evidence that something has gone wrong.
The word "slow" does something interesting here. It suggests that what we are waiting for may already be in motion—not absent, but unhurried. Whatever we name as the ground beneath our lives—God, Reality, Presence, Love—it may not be operating at the pace the ego prefers. Trusting that may not come naturally. The invitation may be less about feeling patient and more about loosening the grip just enough to let things unfold at their own rate.
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.
