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The self-honesty arising from the self examination requisite to "know thyself" requires not only courage but also the willingness to relinquish self-judgment and surrender to God. The core of the ego itself, with the conviction that it is the author and primordial source of one's very life and existence, must also be surrendered to God. The ego is concerned with physical survival, emotional pleasure, and personal gain, that also must be surrendered to God.
Opportunities for change can be seen as invitations rather than as moral obligations, and these options really offer greater degrees of freedom and inner happiness. However, one is free at all times to hold them in abeyance. Examples abound of failure to act or function "blindsided" with unprepareness.
The charge of the karmic spiritual body is set by intention, decision, and alignment by intention. It appears to naive perception that what is not intellectually explicable seems to be falsehood.
Neutrality allows for participation and the enjoyment of life because, experientially, life becomes more like play than a high stake involvement. This is consistent with the teachings of the Tao, in that the flow of life is neither sought nor resisted.
Thus, veneration for the great teachers, ie the Buddha, Jesus and the likes, is based on confirmable fact and not just myth.
Guilt is a function of the normal superego or conscience, and is a mechanism of restraint to counterbalance the animal instincts and impulses of what Freud termed the "Id", which is composed of very primitive repressed instincts. While an excess of guilt calls for correction, its total absence is more serious and is generally a consequence of a congenial pathological condition that leads to various forms of criminality.
The inflated ego is vulnerable to attacks. Pride is weak because it can be knocked off its pedestal into shame, which is the threat thast fires the fear of loss of pride. 
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