PRIDE:
When we base our security and self-esteem on ourselves.
Manifestations:
HAUGHTINESS.
Having an elevated concept of myself;
annoyance with those who contradict me;
easily judging others, thinking they are bad and hence easily gossiping about them;
difficulty in recognizing my own errors or knowing when I’ve hurt someone and thus inability to ask, seek or grant forgiveness;
hypocrisy;
unwillingness to serve;
impatience, distance, brusqueness in my daily contact with others;
thinking that I’m the only one who knows how to do things right;
unwillingness to let others help;
over-rationalism, such that anything I don’t understand clearly I judge to be in error, and say so;
not believing practically in my need for God, even though I invoke Him;
activism (doing good works at the expense of prayer).
SELF-LOVE.
Permitting nobody to contradict me;
growing annoyed if I don’t get my way or if I’m not taken into account;
refusing to assent unless it’s all explained to me;
nursing grudges a long time;
not letting go of minor annoyances;
rebelling against what I don’t like or what seems mistaken to me;
not liking to take directions from anyone;
acting authoritarian;
inflexibility.
thinking of myself first;
my needs or desires take priority over everyone else’s;
being indifferent to others and their needs, tastes;
difficulty in disrupting my plans when someone asks me for something, and thus great calculation in my relations with others and with God;
liking to be heard, always thinking my conversation is the most important;
centering games and entertainment around myself.
(to be continued)
