Answer: By Losing Contact with Reality
A general rule is that as soon as a virtue or a value that a
person has, begins to lose contact with reality, that is, with the way things
are in this world, that virtue or value begins to lose balance and deviates, and
becomes either a fanatically upheld ideal or a desire out of control.
Al the good and bad egos are exactly that, they became egos
because along the way somewhere, the value inherent in them lost balance.
Remember what is balanced is conscious. Consciousness is the
wise and balanced synthesis of the two opposites and floats above them as a
directing governing, organising principle keeping both sides in balance. To
have lost balance is to have lost consciousness.
Conclusion
This can happen within ourselves with any value or virtue
that we have. In both cases where we lose contact with reality and this value becomes
unbalanced in us, we create an ego or fall on the side of the egos that already
exist in us.
It always, always serves us well to be in touch with reality.
End (1939).
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