1 Corinthians 6:7 · World English Bible
Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
When someone wrongs you, the ego rushes forward, hungry to be proven right, to make the other person wrong. This is why people drag each other into endless disputes.
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EGO & BEING
When someone wrongs you, the ego rushes forward, hungry to be proven right, to make the other person wrong. This is why people drag each other into endless disputes. The grievance feels like justice, but it is only the pain-body feeding on conflict, growing stronger each time you defend your position.
To accept a wrong without retaliating is not weakness. It is the refusal to let the ego turn a passing offense into a lasting identity. You lose a little in the outer world and gain your inner peace, which no court could ever award you. That is why yielding here leaves you freer than winning ever could.
Ego v. Being lens
What argument are you still carrying that you could put down before dinner?
The one who does not fight for the last word cannot be beaten. Yielding costs you a point and keeps your peace whole.
He hurt me, he cheated me. Those who keep turning the sentence over keep the wound open. Those who set it down are free.
The best revenge is to be unlike the one who harmed you. Winning the argument is often how you become them.
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Ego v. Being