Are you operating from your lower self or your Higher Self?

The ego cannot oppose the laws of God any more than you can, but it can interpret them according to what it wants, just as you can. That is why the question, “What do you want?” must be answered. You are answering it every minute and every second, and each moment of decision is a judgment that is anything but ineffectual. Its effects will follow automatically until the decision is changed. T-5.V.6:1-4

A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

We can choose knowingly or unknowingly to separate ourselves from the will of God. People side with the ego and do it all the time. And then they wonder why they suffer and are unhappy.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. This truth and meaning is to be found in the will of God. The search for this truth and meaning according to the will of God is called “discernment.”

Today, it is suggested that we step back from our ego desires and attempt to discern the will of God, our Higher Power, our Transcendent Source, the Ground of Being, the Tao, whatever we wish to call it. It is our Higher Self as compared to our ego based Lower Self.