Those on a spiritual journey seek Enlightenment – the end result of eradicating (the control of) ego. But if you were suddenly to lose your ego then you would go mad because it is the ego that keeps us together and assembles our world. To survive and flourish without an ego requires a different mind, a mind that has mastered intent or intention. Intention just means in-tension, but it is a good tension, an intense, elastic, focused tension that sustains and directs energy. It takes decades of dedicated practice to develop, understand and control intent, and the energy most important to its utilization is spirit, which is why I rattle on so about it.