World View Perspective: The hideous nature of a sabotaging ego
When a small, still, unhappy aspect of our self surfaces, it can be quite useful to give it some time and attention. Just like a misbehaving child, sometimes it just wants/needs to be heard, held or valued for what it has to say. Sometimes, it can be comforted, soothed or calmed down with simple affection, understanding and love. Other times, absolutely nothing will quiet it because it is out of balance and refuses to be still. It can wreak havoc because it has become fitful, tired, ignorned or fed up. When we have an unhappy, dissatisfied, twisted, tainted or sabotaging ego, this ego can act very similar. It can feed us such negative inner verbiage, judgement, criticism that we attach, identify and react to it, as if it is us. Yes, our ego can protect us, too, and help us discern what is not for us but if it has a self-sabotaging agent to it, an element of a negative self-image, it can effectively seize the system into falsehood, convin...