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All things work together for [[good]]. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans.2C_VIII] There are no [[exceptions]] except in the [[ego]]'s [[judgment]]. The ego exerts maximal [[vigilance]] about what it permits into [[awareness]], and this is not the way a [[balanced]] mind holds together. The ego is thrown further off balance because it keeps its primary [[motivation]] from your awareness, and raises [[control]] rather than sanity to predominance. The ego has every reason to do this, according to the [[thought]] system which gave rise to it and which it serves. Sane judgment would [[inevitably]] judge against the ego, and must be obliterated by the ego in the interest of its [[self-preservation]].

All things work together for [[good]]. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans.2C_VIII] There are no [[exceptions]] except in the [[ego]]'s [[judgment]]. The ego exerts maximal [[vigilance]] about what it permits into [[awareness]], and this is not the way a [[balanced]] mind holds together. The ego is thrown further off balance because it keeps its primary [[motivation]] from your awareness, and raises [[control]] rather than sanity to predominance. The ego has every reason to do this, according to the [[thought]] system which gave rise to it and which it serves. Sane judgment would [[inevitably]] judge against the ego, and must be obliterated by the ego in the interest of its [[self-preservation]].

A major source of the ego's off-balanced state is its lack of [[discrimination]] between the [[body]] and the [[thoughts of God]]. Thoughts of God are unacceptable to the [[ego]], because they clearly point to the nonexistence of the ego itself. The ego therefore either [[distorts]] them or refuses to [[accept]] them. It cannot, however, make them cease to be. It therefore tries to conceal not only "unacceptable" [[body]] [[impulses]], but also the [[thoughts of God]], because both are threatening to it. Being concerned primarily with its own [[preservation]] in the face of threat, the ego [[perceives]] them as the same. By perceiving them as the same, the ego attempts to save itself from being swept away, as it would surely be in the [[presence]] of [[knowledge]].

A major source of the ego's off-balanced state is its lack of [[discrimination]] between the [[body]] and the [[thoughts of God]]. Thoughts of God are unacceptable to the [[ego]], because they clearly point to the nonexistence of the ego itself. The ego therefore either [[distorts]] them or refuses to [[accept]] them. It cannot, however, make them cease to be. It therefore tries to conceal not only "unacceptable" [[body]] [[impulses]], but also the [[thoughts of God]], because both are threatening to it. Being concerned primarily with its own [[preservation]] in the face of threat, the ego [[perceives]] them as the same. By perceiving them as the same, the ego attempts to save itself from being swept away, as it would surely be in the [[presence]] of [[knowledge]].