4Never forget that the ego believes that power, understanding, and truth lie in separation. 5And to establish this belief it must attack. 6Unaware that the belief cannot be established, and obsessed with the conviction that separation is salvation, the ego attacks everything it perceives by breaking it up into small and disconnected parts, without meaningful relationships and thus without meaning. 7The ego will always substitute chaos for meaning, for if separation is salvation, harmony is threat.
