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Pieman333272
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I realized that while not outgoing about it, I am a very vain, arrogant, and jealous person internally. How might I correct this?
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Robert_Sock
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Read and choose to follow The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas A Kempis.
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Living_Stats
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I am pretty much all of those things too (plus narcissistic). I think an important thing to realize is that God is in all things and he contains us as we contain him (Augustinian theology). And we are to serve others as Jesus did in the gospels. That’s all I got.
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Polycarp1
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Not me! I’m the humblest person I know, In fact I might be the most humble person in the whole city, maybe the whole country! If they gave out a prize for humility I think I’d win hands down!
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JimR-OCDS
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After 60 years, I’m convinced that humility is built by falling down and getting up again, many times as necessary to get over your ego.
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CountrySteve
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LOl o yea thats very humble of you
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Phaedra777
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forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=312864
That link has Fr. Serpa’s answer to a similar question. St. Ignatius of Loyala said to “act against” a vice. For example, if gluttony is a problem for someone, he should fast.
That link has Fr. Serpa’s answer to a similar question. St. Ignatius of Loyala said to “act against” a vice. For example, if gluttony is a problem for someone, he should fast.
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AlanFromWichita
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Gratitude leads to humility.
Think of something you depend on others for, and dwell upon how grateful you are those others do what they do. Like when you’re on the way somewhere and there is a bridge over a creek. Think about how inconvenient it would be to travel without it, and think happy thoughts about the people who designed and built it – not to mention those who paid for it.
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Think of something you depend on others for, and dwell upon how grateful you are those others do what they do. Like when you’re on the way somewhere and there is a bridge over a creek. Think about how inconvenient it would be to travel without it, and think happy thoughts about the people who designed and built it – not to mention those who paid for it.
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animalis
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There is a book called “Guidance in Spiritual Direction” by Charles Hugo Doyle. It is written for spirtual directors but a potiential pentient like yourself would benefit by this comphrehensive book. This is a book for framework.
To build around the frame, I would consider the treatise True Devotion to Mary by St. Louis de Montfort. This book based on Sacred Tradition give insight into the excellent love of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The message of the book is publicly recommended by a number of Popes.
I cannot go by without re-mentioning the “Imitation of Christ” mentioned by Robert Sock. Pope Pius XII calls this book the “Golden Book”.
Finally, the only way to correct our wills is to abandon them. God will find it when you do. Thus we have the teachings of the Church to guide us. Hence, the Church teaches for this reason.
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Holly3278
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You could try praying the Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet at 3 PM every day for these graces. Remember, God will not deny you these things if you ask Him for them because He wants you to have these virtues. Also, you might try to get a spiritual director, preferably one who is a priest who can also be your confessor and have him help you with this.
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acadian
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Go to confession regularly?
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Polycarp1
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St. Bernard reminds us that “Humility is Truth”. It is a truth which, inasmuch as it is a home-thrusting truth, none of us can afford to ignore. It is the truth all about oneself in one’s triple alliance with God, with one’s neighbor, with one’s own soul.
Humility may not inappropriately be called the starting post in that race for Heaven of which the Apostle speaks. It is the terminus a quo in the spiritual life. It is the first of the many lessons set before us in the school of sanctity-----a difficult lesson, I grant you, and one which nature seeks to shirk or to put off indefinitely, but for the man who means to graduate for Heaven there is no escape from it.
Accordingly our Divine Master, who is not exacting, reminds all His would-be followers, without distinction, that they must learn this lesson, get it well by heart, and into the heart; for Humility is the alphabet out of which every other virtue is formed and built up. It is the soil of the garden of the soul, “the good ground” on which the Divine Sower goes forth to sow His seed.
It is in the school of Christ, and from the lips of Christ Himself that we must learn Humility. “Learn of Me, because I am meek and humble of heart.” By following the Master Himself, by studying His Own Heart, we have to acquire, to appreciate and to practice this first, this vital, this vitalizing, energizing virtue, without which no man can hope to make any progress at all on the Royal Road heavenward.
Humility may not inappropriately be called the starting post in that race for Heaven of which the Apostle speaks. It is the terminus a quo in the spiritual life. It is the first of the many lessons set before us in the school of sanctity-----a difficult lesson, I grant you, and one which nature seeks to shirk or to put off indefinitely, but for the man who means to graduate for Heaven there is no escape from it.
Accordingly our Divine Master, who is not exacting, reminds all His would-be followers, without distinction, that they must learn this lesson, get it well by heart, and into the heart; for Humility is the alphabet out of which every other virtue is formed and built up. It is the soil of the garden of the soul, “the good ground” on which the Divine Sower goes forth to sow His seed.
It is in the school of Christ, and from the lips of Christ Himself that we must learn Humility. “Learn of Me, because I am meek and humble of heart.” By following the Master Himself, by studying His Own Heart, we have to acquire, to appreciate and to practice this first, this vital, this vitalizing, energizing virtue, without which no man can hope to make any progress at all on the Royal Road heavenward.
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Polycarp1
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The Savior might have said: “Learn of Me to be chaste, humble, prudent, just, wise, abstemious, etc.” But He only says: “Learn of Me, because I am meek and humble of heart”; and in humility alone He includes all things, because, as St. Thomas so truly says, “Acquired humility is in a certain sense the greatest good.” Therefore whoever possesses this virtue may be said, as to his proximate disposition, to possess all virtues, and he who lacks it, lacks all.
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Polycarp1
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Humility is like purity: however little it may be contaminated it becomes impure. Purity is corrupted not only by an impure act, but also by an immodest word or thought. And humility is also so fragile that it is easily tainted by the love of praise, by a word or thought of self-esteem, by vainglory or self-love.
He who really loves purity not only diligently banishes all impure fancies but also does so with horror and abomination; and in the same way he who really loves humility, far from taking pleasure in praise and honor, is displeased by them, and instead of fleeing from humiliations embraces them.
He who really loves purity not only diligently banishes all impure fancies but also does so with horror and abomination; and in the same way he who really loves humility, far from taking pleasure in praise and honor, is displeased by them, and instead of fleeing from humiliations embraces them.
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animalis
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Here is a link to a another book, “The Three Ages of the Interior Life” which I think is good to include with the one above. You may want to buy this book (2 vol.) for it is a long read. Together, these two will give a more complete picture. The course one takes in contemplative prayer varies from person to person, and so do the outline of the teachings, as do these two books in constrast. I thought the honest thing to do was to place this post.
christianperfection.info/index.php
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Pieman333272
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Thank you animalis. I’ll try to get that book as soon as I get the chance.
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