The ego's voice is a hallucination…. Hallucinations are inaccurate perception of reality…. If you do not want them on the basis of loss of peace, they will be removed from your mind for you. Every response to the ego is a call to war, and war does deprive you of peace.

The mind that accepts attack cannot love. That is because it believes it can destroy love, and therefore does not understand what love is. If it does not understand what love is, it cannot perceive itself as loving. This loses the awareness of being, induces feelings of unreality and results in utter confusion… The ingeniousness of the ego to preserve itself is enormous… The ego cannot afford to know anything. Knowledge is total, and the ego does not believe in totality. This unbelief is its origin, and while the ego does not love you it is faithful to its own antecedents, begetting as it was begotten. Mind always reproduces as it was produced. Produced by fear, the ego reproduces fear. This is its allegiance, and this allegiance makes it treacherous to love because you are love. Love is your power, which the ego must deny. It must also deny everything this power gives you because it gives you everything. No one who has everything wants the ego. Its own maker, then, does not want it. Rejection is therefore the only decision the ego could possibly encounter, if the mind that made it knew itself. And if it recognized any part of the Sonship, it would know itself. The ego therefore opposes all appreciation, all recognition, all sane perception and all knowledge….

This is your mind. Reject the ego and recognize the truth of yourself Who IS Peace. As an ego the mind believes to live a little “life” in the world as a body with other bodies, believes in conflict and competition with each other and sees no other “alternative” than to find its ultimate release in death. “The earlier the better! Let’s go to war and die for each other and the nation. Then we might find some sense for our being here,” in this hell where people shoot on people out of cars and the nations prime cause for a non-violent death has become overeating. For whatever you look for in this world to feel better: relationships, having a successful job, sports activities, alcohol, smoking or drugs of any kind etc., death remains like an iron fist in your neck. How many sports idols and celebrities do you need to feel a little worthy here?