#362 – What did your Ego get wrong about "right" and "wrong?"

I could say, "everything," but that'd be my Ego talking

Your Ego thinks in absolute terms. You know it's It talking when you hear "always" and "never" in your head.

The same's true for its judgment of "right" and "wrong:" it gives its verdict with 100% certainty. No room for doubt or other perspectives when it clacks its gavel inside your mind.

Well, it's at least partially wrong because "wrong," it turns out, has levels.

In his insightful essay, "The Relativity of Wrong," Isaac Asimov explains how certain "wrongs" are "less wrong" than others.

For example, he says, saying that the Earth is a sphere is "less wrong" than saying it's flat. Although neither assertion is completely "right," the first is closer to the truth than the second.

But because your Ego isn't equipped to think with nuance, when it declares something "wrong," it puts it away in the vault of "wrong," giving you no chance to review or reassess it.

Sometimes it's other people's actions which it deems "wrong," and sometimes it's your own. Either way, you lose.

Seeing "right" and "wrong" in absolute terms narrows your mind and with it, your world.

It makes you shut doors to relationships and experiences that would otherwise further your evolution.

But when you stay open to finding everyone at least partially right, you strip your Ego's judgment of meaning. And with that, you advance to your freedom.

What absolute "wrong" will you reassess to keep advancing toward your freedom?

Love,

Carolina