Man is an emotional person, with established life rules. He has a large energy reserve, with the help of the senses shows his attitude to the world around him, but what potential is charged with the thoughts of a person and what emotions he radiates in the process of communicating with people depends on himself. What is pride and why it is called a mortal sin for man - let's try to formulate.
Pride - what is it?
Pride is a sense of superiority of the person before the others. This is an inadequate assessment of personal worth. It often leads to the making of stupid mistakes, from which others suffer. Pride is manifested in arrogant disrespect for other people and their lives, problems. People who have a sense of pride boast of their life achievements. They determine their own success by personal aspirations and efforts, not noticing the help of God in obvious life circumstances, they do not recognize the facts of support of other people.
In Latin, the term pride sounds "superbia". Pride is a mortal sin for the reason that all the qualities inherent in a person from the Creator. To see in itself the source of all life achievements and to consider that everything surrounding is the fruits of one's own labors is completely wrong. Criticism of the surrounding people and a discussion of their failure, a mockery of failure - amuses people's pride with pride.
Signs of pride
The conversations of such people are based on the "I" or "MY". Manifestation of pride - the world in the eyes of the proud, which is divided into two unequal halves - "He" and all the rest. And "all the rest" in comparison with him is an empty place, unworthy of attention. If you remember "all the rest", then only for comparison, in a light favorable for pride - stupid, ungrateful, wrong, weak and so on.
Pride in Psychology
Pride can become a sign of improper upbringing. As a child, parents are able to inspire his child that he is the best. To praise and support the child is necessary - but for specific, not invented reasons, and rewarding with false praise - to form pride, a person with an overestimated self-esteem. Such people do not know how to analyze their shortcomings. In childhood they did not hear criticism and are not able to perceive it in adulthood.
Often pride destroys relations - it is unpleasant to communicate with the proud. Initially, feel yourself an order of magnitude lower, listen to haughty monologues, not the desire to make compromise decisions, like not much. Talents and the abilities of another person, struck by pride, does not recognize. If those are openly seen in society or a company, then the proud will publicly refute them and in every way deny.
What is pride in Orthodoxy?
In Orthodoxy, pride is considered the main sin, it becomes the source of other spiritual vices: vanity, greed, resentment. The foundation on which the salvation of the human soul is built is the Lord above all. Then we must love our neighbor, sometimes by sacrificing our own interests. But spiritual pride does not recognize debts to others, it does not feel compassionate. Virtue, rooting out pride, is humility. It manifests itself in patience, prudence, and obedience.
What is the difference between pride and pride?
Pride and pride - have different meanings and manifest themselves in the character of a person on different grounds. Pride is a sense of joy for specific justified reasons. It does not belittle or humiliate the interests of other people. Pride - the border, it denotes the values of life, reflects the inner world, allows a person with a sincere feeling to rejoice for the achievements of others. Pride makes a man a slave of his own principles:
- forces relations to be built on the principle of inequality;
- does not forgive mistakes;
- has a grudge;
- does not recognize human talents;
- inclined to self-assertion on other people's labors;
- does not allow a person to learn from his own mistakes.
Causes of Pride
Modern society forms the view that a woman can do without a man. Women's pride does not recognize a family union - marriage, in which the male head and his opinion should be the main one. A woman in such relations does not recognize the rightness of a man, clearly puts forward her independence as an argument, and seeks to subordinate his will. It is important for her to be victorious in relations with unshakable principles. To sacrifice one's own ambitions for the benefit of the family, for a proud woman is unacceptable.
Excessive control, sawing and female irritation on petty matters - poison the life of both. All scandals are completed only after the man recognizes his guilt and the female Ego wins. If a man is forced to praise the superiority of a spouse for any petty reason, he feels humiliated. His love fades - there is a heat of passion, and he leaves the family.
What leads to pride?
Pride is called an inferiority complex. An unhealthy sense of superiority over others does not allow a person to admit their shortcomings, encourages them to prove in every way their case - lying, bragging, inventing and disseminating. Vain and proud have developed a sense of cruelty, anger, hatred, resentment, contempt, envy and despair - which is characteristic of the weak in spirit people. The fruits of pride are negative thoughts that engender aggressive behavior towards others.
How to get rid of pride?
Pride is called the enemy of one's own happiness. It forms a false opinion about the meaning of a person's life, deprives friends. Pride can destroy a family alliance, excludes the possibility of extracting experience from one's own mistakes. Overcoming pride is not easy. First, it must be recognized as a negative feeling, which must be suppressed and eradicated. But how to deal with pride on specific examples:
- to recognize authority over the Supreme, to perceive oneself as a grain of sand in the ocean of the Universe;
- learn from people - notice their efforts, recognize the success of those who have more achievements, take a good example from them;
- be grateful for help and tips;
- Do not appropriate yourself achievements of others, do not detract from the importance of others' merits;
- share positive experiences with others;
- to show disinterested support by excluding as a basis praise and gratitude;
- find an authoritative personality and ask to point out mistakes, shortcomings - to provide targeted criticism;
- do not take offense, do not accumulate them in the shower.