it takes real spiritual and emotional maturity to recognize that our response always and finally comes from us, even if it is much easier to put the responsibility and shame elsewhere instead of finding our own inner freedom. Projecting our dark reservoir elsewhere relieves us of a huge burden. If our egos are still in charge, we will almost certainly resort to this common survival technique. All of life is pulled inside of me as the central reference point, and that is far too small a world. As Jesus would put it, such people have not lost themselves, so they cannot find themselves either.
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