then I do not feel wholly independent of you, above you. The truly proud person couldn’t care less what others think of him. Pride is not first of all thinking too highly of yourself, because it isn’t thinking first of all but willing, just as humility isn’t thinking about yourself in a low way but not thinking of yourself at all. Humility is thinking less about yourself, not thinking less of yourself. Pride is willful arrogance, arrogating to yourself what is really God’s. Pride is not pleasure
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