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Thank you for your response Colkoch.
 It is fair to say that if we followed His Path/Way of spiritual enlightenment, the Ego would diminish 
“Truly I say to you, except you be converted, and “become as little children”, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven”
This could be translated as:
Unless you learn how to accept a meek an 'humble' opinion of yourself as in dropping pretentious and envious behavior, removing of self-serving ambition and arrogance, wanting to take the higher place, etc; none of which as you imply are found in very young children.
All of us in our fallen nature, fall well short of our Fathers divine Word (Will), so how do we become humble, St Bernard-Humility a virtue by which a man knowing himself as he truly is, abases himself.
To know yourself as you truly are before God, we need to embrace honestly His inviolate Word as in “Not one iota”
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