"Pride goeth before a fallacy."

Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary
1: the quality or state of being proud : inordinate self-esteem : conceit : a reasonable or justifiable self-respect : delight or elation arising from some act, possession, or relationship.

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Pride is a symptom of a dualistic perception/conception of existence and the self-centered consciousness that focuses on concentric degrees of loyalties and competitors/opponents/threats based on the fundamentally adversarial separation of self vs other. This is very common to the pathology of an upbringing in a dualistic theology such as those originating in the Middle East, i.e. Christianity, Islam and Judaism, which have common origins in earlier anthropomorphic monotheistic systems.

"And that's all I have to say about that." - F. Gump

Just One Thing

I believe that all things are
fundamentally interconnected,
but some things are a great
deal more interconnected
than others.
Adams

But we try to pretend, you see,
that the external world
exists altogether independently of us.
Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than
the focus of conscious attention.
Alan Watts

You and I are all as much continuous
with the physical universe
as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Alan Watts

So to describe myself in a scientific way,
I must also describe my surroundings,
which is a clumsy way of getting around to
the realization that you are the entire universe.
Alan Watts

In dualism, the devil's in the details.
2b

“We're all just walking each other home.”
Ram Dass

In most of our human relationships,
we spend much of our time reassuring one another
that our costumes of identity are on straight.
Ram Dass

I'm not interested in being a "lover."
I'm interested in only being love.
Ram Dass

We are all affecting the world every moment,
whether we mean to or not. Our actions and
states of mind matter, because we are
so deeply interconnected with one another.
Ram Dass

The game is not about becoming somebody,
it's about becoming nobody.
Ram Dass

Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
Ram Dass

All spiritual practices are illusions
created by illusionists
to escape illusion.
Ram Dass

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
Ram Dass

When we're identified with Awareness,
we're no longer living in a world of polarities.
Everything is present at the same time.
Ram Dass

The dance goes from realizing that
you're separate (which is the awakening)
to then trying to find your way back
into the totality of which you are
not only a part, but which you are.
Ram Dass

Our interactions with one another
reflect a dance between love and fear.
Ram Dass

Life, unmeasured, is unlimited.
2b

The Root of All Evil
...is ego, our natural, self-centric,
perception/misconception birthright.
2b

Treat others as yourself...
imagine a future
when no one conceives a difference
between 'self'/'other'...
2b


Though it is futile to.attack an ego that's absent,
you may persist with your shadow boxing,
if you feel yours needs the exorcize ;}
2b

Accepting failure as unimportant
is its own success.
2b