Our egos refuse to accept that what we see in the world is but a reflection of the thoughts and attitudes in our own minds that we are projecting outwards. As difficult as it may be to believe, it is important to consider that we create the picture of what we see and that our thoughts create our own reality. The ego law states that if something is going wrong in our lives, we should find someone else to blame. It would have us believe that it is someone else's fault, not our own. We need to take responsibility for our own actions and actively begin to clean out our minds.
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