A frame I’m enjoying playing with at the moment:

If I were an angel, not a human, would I be saying or doing what I’m about to say or do?

I see an angel here as an entity or energy that has been sent to serve. No need to take anything. Here only to give, or to be a part of, the experience.

Like—am I mentioning X in order to honestly express myself and/or contribute to the experience of the people around me, or am I mentioning it to brag (ego)? An angel wouldn’t do the latter, because it has no need to. At that point I can be curious: why do I need to?

And ultimately that’s how I want to be, as a human: recognising that I fundamentally have everything I need, and that the optimal play for myself and others and the world is for me to be a part of the present moment without needing to take anything from the present moment¹.

Or, to frame differently: why on earth do I think I’m not that angel?

1. This is distinctly different from lacking boundaries and only acting for other people. That would still be taking from the present moment, in a way, because I’d be doing it to be perceived or not perceived a certain way. When you’re in sync with life, you’ll sometimes say no, because it feels congruent to, not from a place of ego. ↩