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I learned something recently about human beings and pride that I believe is interesting enough to share. There's a reason we came up with the phrase, "human beings," as a way to describe two aspects of our lives. We all have a human side and a being side, but the two are unique and meant for different things. Pride always lives in the human side, where our egos are exposed to other human beings. It's the me, myself and I side of humanity. The being is actually who we were meant to be, uniquely and collectively. I believe the journey of life is our subconscious way to search for our true inner being, where perfect peace is found.

What Pride Provides for our Human Side:

Pride creates the need for us to own things so that we can validate our human side. We use our ego as a way to seek our inner being. Our homes, cars, rings and things along with our friends and family seem to give us meaning. When we take pride in them, it's our ego's way to say, "Hey, I exist. I'm alive and I have meaning."

Pride is the, "I," when we speak of our roles. "I am a daughter, wife, mother, friend, teacher, writer and so on." The more roles we attach to "I" give us pride in our human side. That's fine and it's just what humans do in life as a way to seek our identity, but pride can get out of hand and actually hide our true inner being, which is why we humans feel as if something is missing.

How Pride Hides our Inner Being:

If we can agree that we were created in the likeness of God, then we'd need to also agree that our true inner being is the spirit inside our human side where God's perfect peace is found. If this is true, it's no wonder we are constantly seeking what we intuitively understand is missing from our human lives. "If I could just find the perfect house, I'd be happy. If I could just lose weight, get a new job, or if my husband would change. . .etc."

Pride distracts us and keeps us busy acquiring things, being right, holding onto control and finding more ways to validate our role. It tells us to focus on others where we gossip, judge and condemn as a way to feel superior to them. It uses our religious views when "I" believe that "my" religious beliefs are the only religious beliefs that could possibly be true. Pride makes me right and you wrong. Pride fears diversity and anything it doesn't understand as the right or wrong way to live and be a human being. Anything different than the pride we hold in our minds is a threat, so we fight as a way to protect our self righteousness.

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