> V. The Ego-Body Illusion
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> T-4.V.1. All things work together for good. 2 There are no exceptions
> except in the ego's judgment. 3 The ego exerts maximal vigilance about
> what it permits into awareness, and this is not the way a balanced
> mind holds together. 4 The ego is thrown further off balance because
> it keeps its primary motivation from your awareness, and raises
> control rather than sanity to predominance. 5 The ego has every reason
> to do this, according to the thought system which gave rise to it and
> which it serves. 6 Sane judgment would inevitably judge against the
> ego, and must be obliterated by the ego in the interest of its self-
> preservation.
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> T-4.V.2. A major source of the ego's off-balanced state is its lack of
> discrimination between the body and the Thoughts of God. 2 Thoughts of
> God are unacceptable to the ego, because they clearly point to the
> nonexistence of the ego itself. 3 The ego therefore either distorts
> them or refuses to accept them. 4 It cannot, however, make them cease
> to be. 5 It therefore tries to conceal not only "unacceptable" body
> impulses, but also the Thoughts of God, because both are threatening
> to it. 6 Being concerned primarily with its own preservation in the
> face of threat, the ego perceives them as the same. 7 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.

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