To develop lifestyle that supports and maintains your own creation of a you for the world to see is easy to do. In a world where nearly everyone is a "mini-Creator" similarly engaged in their own narcissist existence, you will be applauded for your "self-esteem". It will be seen as a positive attribute, being mistaken for confidence. But confidence only comes through God-consciousness - not self-consciousness.
As you mistook one for the other, you were able to fit right in with the rest of the world; which similarly pursues activities, people and situations that help build false and exaggerated personal icons of self.
We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality - safe and protected. |
They suggest that the alcoholic needs to experience a “deflation of ego” – a deep leveling of pride in order to awaken and to be placed in a position of neutrality that has become known as being a “recovered alcoholic”.
This is a safe place from where the alcoholic should not sit in admiration of accomplishment but rather it is a starting platform from where he first begins his spiritual growth toward perfection
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