3For the ego cannot tolerate release from the past, and though it is no more, it tries to preserve its image by responding as if it were present.26 4Thus, it dictates reactions to those you meet now from a past reference point, obscuring their present reality. 5In effect, if you follow its dictates, you will react to your brothers as though they were someone else, and this will surely prevent you from perceiving them as they are. 6And you will receive messages from them out of your own past because, by making it real in the present, you are forbidding yourself to let it go. 7You thus deny
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