How can we become egoless by indulging our personal pleasure?

The apparent paradox: the 'it' can only be found by being egoless, yet the prescription is to please yourself.

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When we reach the innocence of the child where we only please ourselves, that is the closest we can ever come to the egoless state in which we see the structure perfectly.
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The equation of childlike making with the perfect perception required for structure-preserving transformation.

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If we reach the innocence of the child where we only please ourselves, then we will achieve the egoless state in which we see structure perfectly and make the perfect structure-preserving response.hypothesis0.803
Conditional claim linking childlike self-pleasing to flawless perception and action.
People do not know—emotionally—how to please themselves. In part, they are prevented by society. And in part, they are prevented by themselves, by their inner thought police.claim0.792
Diagnosis of why living structure is absent from the world: a failure of emotional knowledge enforced by social and internal constraints.
Egolessness in Makingconcept0.784
The state of mind required to produce genuine roughness and life; the product of no will, where the maker is deeply relaxed and free, doing only what is essential without contrived desire to be interesting
Pleasing oneself, when it is truly done, leads to the most sublime, the most profound, the most truly spiritual art.claim0.775
Alexander claims that true pleasing oneself is identical to the path intended by the greatest religious teachers.
It is only when you finally are personal, when you really put your humanness into the things you make, that you genuinely reach the wholeness.claim0.773
It requires absolute removal of the individual ego, because what is created can no longer stand out and be separated from everything else.claim0.760
Ego removal as a necessary condition for not-separate creation.
When you make a beautiful thing, the depth of the person within becomes more vivid, lives more intensely for a moment.claim0.757
There is an empirical way in which we can help ourselves to find out what we really like from the heart. Nevertheless, it is not easy to find what we really like, and it is by no means automatic to be in touch with it. It takes effort, hard work, and personal enlightenment to understand it and to feel it.claim0.756
Fifth point introducing the empirical test and the personal growth required.