Personal judgment is based on perception that is reinforced by belief and prior programming, all of which are held in place by the pay-off of the negative energies of the ego. The ego just ‘loves’ suffering a ‘wrong’, being the martyr, being misunderstood, and being the endless victim of life’s vicissitudes. It thereby gets an enormous pay-off, not only from the positionality itself but also from sympathy, self-pity, entitlements, importance, or being ‘center stage’ in which the self is the hero or heroine of the melodrama. The ego hoards ‘slights’ and injuries, nurses ‘hurt feelings’, and
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