Very importantly, before taking an inner moral inventory, it is essential to become knowledgeable about one’s own conscience and how it operates. It is important for it to become benign and be utilized constructively, for if not recontextualized, it ends up with self-blame or an increase of guilt, shame, or the loss of self-esteem. It must be clearly seen that all defects are intrinsic to the ego structure itself, which is naive and unable to discern appearance
