Contemplative traditions encourage relinquishing ego through practices dissolving illusory separation between self and others. Meditation focuses on our interconnectedness and small place in the greater universe. Acts of selfless service orient attention toward community benefit. Artistic creation channels ego into passionate expression supporting growth.
Rituals like pilgrimage symbolize moving beyond familiar markers of status and individuality. Some psychedelic experiences provide unitive glimpses outside constructed identity limits. Elders model graceful surrender of pride in aging's humbling.
Finding fulfillment in compassion, creativity, and meaning shared - this grounds pride's harsh corrosive edge into wisdom. For transcendence arrives unexpectedly as a gift of surrender. In quieting fixation on personal glory, we receive the abundant inheritance of simply being.
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A Cardinal Vice: Pride
SpiritualThis book offers a deep dive into the paradoxical nature of pride - how it can both corrupt and motivate us. This philosophical and psychological examination reveals the complexities of pride as a universal human trait that has been viewed as a sin...
