"with objective wonder at the rising of a truth"

"a no man's land in a private war against narcissism...

franny said:
always, always, always referring every goddam that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
all I know is I'm losing my mind. I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
but zooey replied:
you keep talking about ego. My god, it would take Christ himself to decide what's ego and what isn't. This is god's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't. In my opinion, if you really want to know, half the hastiness in the world is stirred up by people who aren't using their true egos."

by J. D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)

and there was a hot sunshine that day.. the talk about egos was going nowhere..
and it didn't need to go..
all egos and gods lost in the shadows of a single mind..