Sunday, July 14, 2013

Pride Begets Pride: Newton's Forgotten Law?

Just like a poison and its antidote, we speak of pride, and humility is always implied. Unlike the antidote beget by its poison, pride only begets pride. this is no Newtonian law of action and reaction. perhaps, maybe it is a chemical reaction governed by primal rules: those of natural laws of reason, and of karma.
The proud one, forever proud, will one day self destruct- the Holy Bible spoke first of this chemistry. A quick little tale on the combustible outcome of your favorite disposition, it reads: 'Pride comes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall'.
I listen as you speak of all that go on around you, yet you are one man, blinded by elements of pride within and without. This pride is a tough skin, kindred one. Often you will deliberate and reach for an idea, only to realize you have reached nowhere at all. Your voice of reason, lost to the pull of motions, orchestrated by vulnerable emotions. These emotions, disguised as pride. I will tell you of anger, I will tell you of jealousy and regret: conditions of the heart, that love itself hates. Elements of combustion, elements of pride: such emotions will certainly steer one from purposeful action and intention. Examining the condition of my mind in the presence of pride, it suffers in pain: clouded, suffocating, confused. You will have to picture a forest waking up to sulfur, where carbon should be. Much the same way, pride emerges where love should be. What a struggle to breathe and exist; what a struggle to simply be. Call it anger, call it jealousy, but I bear this to you, kindred one, we lack humility.
Sitting atop a mountain, is humble heart, brave, and watching as the world sits beneath. Of all the worldly pomp and show down below she sits in the sky, and what does she see? one wave for every ocean, and a simple rainbow for the flags of every nation. With clarity, humility begets humility and quietly commands complexities. My friend and kin, with a humble disposition, 'forever' becomes a mere glance.

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