We must overcome our ego through our deeds

 

Not I, but Christ in me

Rudolf Steiner:  "The essential secret, therefore, is this: The human being must know how to keep silence about the paths along which his ego unfolds, and to regard his deeds, not his personal ego, as the criterion. The real heart of the secret lies in his deeds and in the overcoming of the ego through deed. The ego must remain concealed within the deed! Elimination of the interests of the personal ego from the onstreaming flow of human karma — this belongs to the First Degree. Whatever individual karma the ego incurs in the process is thereby wiped out. Nation, race, sex, position, religion — all these work upon human egoism. Only when man has overcome them will he be free of egoism."

Source: December 23, 1904. GA 93