Formula for Life: How Does Pride Hinder Spiritual Growth?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

A person who wants to accumulate personal strength, that is, the vital energy that is needed in order to overcome obstacles, without difficulty realizing his intentions and working on himself, must get rid of pride.

But in order to get rid of pride, you must first recognize it.

Let's take a look at the most common signs of pride:

1. Pride, first of all, is manifested by the feeling of one's own infallibility and the rightness and wrongness of others.

Such people feel that they are always right, tend to criticize someone, discuss, gossip and blame.

2. The next manifestation of pride is self-pity.

A sense of self-importance is a hidden self-pity, a person feels unhappy, he experiences fear and fear of the whole world, and in order to protect himself from it, he exposes his importance, significance, wealth. Such a person is concentrated only on himself, he begins to play the role of a tyrant or a victim, collectedness, sobriety and poise disappear from his life.

3. The attitude of condescension, condescension.

A person feels himself superior to others, therefore, he considers all people to be inferior to himself.

4. Patronizing attitude towards someone.

This display of pride is next to indulgence. Usually, people who help someone require gratitude and respect. From such people you can hear: “You should be grateful to me for that. What have I done for you!"

5. Humiliation of others and yourself.

There are people who consider themselves losers, incapable of anything, low in spirit, and if they see someone higher than themselves, they are ready to crawl on their knees in front of them. But at the same time, if they notice people below themselves, they force them to behave in the same way.

6. Manifestation of self-importance is the opinion that "without me the world cannot exist."

Such people think that everything depends on them, everything depends on them: peace, work, family. There is a fine line between a sense of responsibility and self-importance.

7. Too serious about yourself.

The person gets the feeling that he is a very important person. And this feeling gives him a reason to be annoyed with and without. And when something in life does not turn out the way he wants, he can get up and leave. This situation can often be seen in families after divorce. Each of the spouses believes that by doing so they are showing the strength of their character, but this is not so. Thus, on the contrary, they show weakness.

8. Excessive importance, in turn, gives rise to another problem - a person begins to focus on what others think and say about him. He is fixated on his problems and constantly talks about them, he manifests narcissism and narcissism.

9. Bragging.

Feeling superior to others. The person begins to praise his own virtues. And he does this because he has an inferiority complex, and he just needs to get the approval of others, to feel his significance.

10. Refusal of help.

A proud person does not allow other people to help themselves. And why? Because he wants to get all the fruits himself, he is afraid that he will have to share with someone.

11. Desire to receive glory, respect and honor, to be exalted.

People take credit for the merits and labors of others. But they also have a tendency to make idols out of people.

12. The idea that the activity that a person is engaged in is more necessary and more important than all others.

13. Rivalry.

The desire to do badly, hurts the opponent. Any competition leads to tension, aggression, a subconscious desire to humiliate an opponent, which ultimately leads to breakdowns and illness.

14. The desire to condemn people for their mistakes, deeds and actions.

Such a person deliberately looks for shortcomings in people, mentally punishes them, all this is done with a feeling of anger, irritation and hatred. Sometimes you even want to teach a person a lesson.

15. Using words whose meaning is not clear to other people.

Scientists usually suffer from this defect.

16. Reluctance to share your knowledge.

17. Reluctance to thank and forgive. Touchiness.

18. Dishonesty to yourself and to other people.

Such a person may not keep his promises, deliberately mislead people, lie.

19. Sarcasm.

The desire to be sarcastic, evil to play a trick on a person, offend with a caustic remark or rudeness.

20. Unwillingness to admit that you have shortcomings - spiritual problems and pride.

From the book of V. V. Sinelnikov. “Formula of life. How to gain personal strength"