If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
I guess when I really think about it, God's voice sounds a lot like my voice.
For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I.
Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either be God's voice or it can be my own ego doing a magnificent impression of God's voice.
Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit.
The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
