Do not underestimate the intensity of the ego’s drive for vengeance on the past. 2It is completely savage and completely insane. 3For the ego remembers everything that you have done that offended it, and seeks retribution of you. 4The fantasies it brings to the special relationships it chooses in which to act out its hate are fantasies of your destruction. 5For the ego holds the past against you, and in your escape from it, it sees itself deprived of the vengeance it believes that you so justly merit.
