Pride, leading to self-justification,
and always spurred by conscious or unconscious fear,
is the basic breeder of most human difficulties,
the chief block to true progress.
Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves
or upon others which cannot be met
without perverting or misusing our God-given instincts.
When the satisfaction of our instincts for sex,
security, and society becomes the sole object of our lives,
then pride steps in to justify our excesses.
All these failings generate fear,
a soul-sickness in its own right.

Thought to Ponder....

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Recovery Related Acronym

F E A R = Face Everything And Recover.