Truth is, we find this very, very hard to accept, but we can’t redeem ourselves. Oh, we like to think we can, deep down, so it’s still about us. Carrying around guilt? Still about us. Feeling stupid? Still about us. Feeling like a failure? Still about us. Turning our guilt into seemingly productive energy so we’re doing the “right” things? Still about us. Seems so . . . so . . . “righteous,” and yet, when we can’t take our eyes off ourselves to celebrate the win, it’s just plain about us. That’s pride. And pride always hurts, but it’s positively deadly when masked by our attempts to pay our
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