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THE PROBLEM

I must know better than

myself, others, life, and God.

As a result--

I create problems

by damning myself and others.

THE SOLUTION

I must know better than

my thinking, scripts, and choices.

As a result--

I solve problems

by damning my stinking thinking.



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Payoffs for Ego

Shoulds = Pride Payoff



QUOTATIONS VARIOUS SOURCES
"Is not virtue a negation of becoming?"--J. Krishnamurti, The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Vol. III, p.204
"The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self."--Plato, Laws
"The way to do is be."--Lao Tzu
"Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling."--J. Krishnamurti, The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Volume IV, page 8
"The soul is undiscovered though explored forever to a depth beyond report."--Heraclitus
"You can be right or you can be happy."--Anonymous
"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."--Norman Vincent Peale
"If you must be right, then you fail to learn and so lose."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often."--Donald Rumsfeld

QUOTATIONS SCRIPTURE
"He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."--Matthew 10:39

"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it."--Matthew 16:25
"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it."--Mark 8:35
"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it."--Luke 9:24
"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."--Luke 14:26
"Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it."--Luke 17:34
"He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal."--John 12:25

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