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many people conduct a double life:
the one public, the other secret.
On the other hand, people are capable to hide their true
feelings and intentions, if it serves their self-interests the best.
Both reasons are interconnected. I am always deeply moved, when
a person is honest to himself and others, and presents himself the way
he really is. That
honesty always requires humility, acknowledgment of one’s own
limitations and shortcomings and awareness of the fact that we need
each other in life.
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Cassian and Saint Gregory the Great mention seven capital sins.
First on the list is PRIDE.
It is the opposite of humility, and leads to lies and vanity,
and to erroneous judgment by others. Pride can be described as an over high opinion of oneself, or
exaggerated self-esteem. The
person concerned shows this by haughtiness and arrogance. He takes delight or satisfaction in his achievements,
possessions, children, thinking that he is better than others, knows
better, and should be recognized as such.
Initially, his social environment may be taken in by his
pretended superiority, but sooner or later their eyes will be opened,
and his falsehood laid bare.
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were children you may have heard the fable of the farmer, who was
given a golden pheasant, a beautiful bird with a long sweeping tail
and brilliant feathers. When
the initial delight and surprise were over, the new owner began
looking for a place where he could keep the animal.
After several hours of doubting and changing his mind, he
decided to put the pheasant in the hen-house.
The hens greatly admired the handsome newcomer and flocked
round him with all the astonishment that might accompany the discovery
of a demigod. When all
the commotion was going on, feeding-time came round and, as the farmer
threw in handfuls, of grain, our pheasant, who was starving after all
the waiting, jumped greedily at the chance of filling his empty
stomach. When the hens
saw the vulgarity of their handsome hero gobbling his food as hungrily
as the commonest of the birds, his disillusioned barnyard companions
fell to pecking their fallen idol, until they have plucked out all his
feathers.
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is the wretched collapse of self-worship, which is made all the more
disastrous the more it is presumptuously built upon the foundations of
one’s own unaided ability. Many
people are self-content in their pride, when the community they belong
to, showers upon them honors and praises and privileges, whereas
actually they only pretend to posses what is not theirs but just given
gratuitously. Not only
academic degrees can be purchased on the market! Rhetorics, flattery,
politeness, nationalism and religion can be borrowed and used as the
plumage that covers a greedy monster!
They show-off beautiful plumes and feathers, which they are not
entitled to, but are entrusted to them by society, or given to them by
their Lord and Creator. When
society detects their falsehood, they will be officially robbed of
their power and popularity, so that only the real person remains, The
demigod of today may become the miserable, ugly creature of tomorrow.
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