I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
The ego is our pain, but it is what we know and we resist moving out of it. _The effort it takes to grow out of painful patterns often feels more uncomfortable than remaining within them. _Personal growth can be so painful because it can make us ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. _ But the goal of personal growth is the journey out of dark emotional patterns which cause us pain to those which cause us peace.
A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
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The ego is our pain, but it is what we know and we resist moving out of it. _The effort it takes to grow out of painful patterns often feels more uncomfortable than remaining within them. _Personal growth can be so painful because it can make us ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. _ But the goal of personal growth is the journey out of dark emotional patterns which cause us pain to those which cause us peace.
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