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The Transformation Network™

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    Avoiding the Trap of Self-Righteousness and Spiritual Pride

    “More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.”— Glen Cook There’s a curious detail in the story of the carpenter from Nazareth. He could sit with just about anyone — tax collectors, thieves, the openly messy — and he had remarkable patience for all the usual human failings. But there was one thing that reliably got under his skin: self-righteousness. The certainty of the people who were quite sure they were the good ones. Jacqueline and I find that fascinating, because self-righteousness might be the most universal blind spot there is. It’s the one pitfall on the road of self-work that everybody can spot in everybody else and almost nobody can spot in themselves. Think of it as a cul-de-sac: you’re driving along feeling like you’re making great progress, and you’ve actually just looped back to your own front door with the windows down, letting everyone know how far you’ve come. And here’s what makes it such a good subject for an hour of conversation — it’s sneaky. The ego is clever. When it can’t win by being the richest or the most successful, it’ll happily settle for being the most right, the most awake, the most evolved person in the room. Same appetite, nicer outfit. So today we want to explore this pitfall with a lot of curiosity and, we hope, a little humor — because taking it too seriously is its own kind of trap. What is self-righteousness really — and why is it so much easier to see in other people? How does it dress itself up in spiritual clothes and call itself growth? And what actually gets us out of the cul-de-sac and back onto the road? All of this and more in the next hour.

    Avoiding the Trap of Self-Righteousness and Spiritual Pride

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