It seems to be a classical Christian view that our pride and egotism prevent us from surrendering utterly to God. That may be so if a unbeliever resisting God is an egotistical, stubborn joiner whose god is his group, and social ranking is his faith and dominant interest.
Where the believer is an actualizing individualist, her pride and egoism is not at all contrary to developing a close and dependent relationship with the Higher Power. We cannot love and follow God until we love the self--maybe first and foremost. We cannot love and sustain the self unless we love and follow God.
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