#Pride and Humility

[squaletta]

„She is his pride and he is her humility.“

– quote from @musessinabag on Yamamoto x Squaletta ship.

#musessinabag #Yamamoto x Squaletta #pride and humility #Yamamoto x Squaletta relationship #Yamamoto x Squaletta dynamic #aesthetics #aestethic

[enigmaink]

Cardinal Sins

Do not dismiss the concept of cardinal sins as mere antiquated moralizing. These ancient archetypes contain hard-won wisdom about humanity's core struggles. To spurn such knowledge is pride in its purest form.

Consider the nature of pride. Beyond vanity or ego, it is a state of dangerous hubris, born from ignorance of one's flaws and limitations. The prideful man elevates himself as a false idol, demanding others' worship while becoming incapable of earning it.

Pride breeds arrogance, disdain, an inflated sense of control over one's destiny. But in truth no man is master of fate, and believing otherwise leads only to suffering for oneself and others. Life cannot be bent by sheer will alone.

Thus pride distorts our grasp of reality, blinding us to our vulnerabilities, reliances, and small place in the greater order. Yet we cling to this delusion, for it falsely empowers and shields our fragile egos from life's harsh truths.

To transcend pride, one must adopt humility, accepting the limits of our knowledge and power. Embrace patience, for change comes slowly. Seek wisdom from sources greater than yourself. Forge virtue through discipline and refrain.

This is the narrow path, requiring honest self-reflection and guidance from moral traditions. The prideful man laughs off such wisdom as antiquated, even as his own life slips into growing disarray.

Do not emulate such foolishness. Look to the cardinal sins as lessons that have stood the test of time. In grappling with these darker parts of our nature, we begin the journey towards enlightenment.

#Pride and humility #humility #human nature #reality check

[gummistovelgutten]

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[philosophybits]

There's a difference as big as that between heaven and hell between the proud courage that dares to fear all and the humble courage that dares to hope for all.

Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers

#philosophy #quotes #Søren Kierkegaard #Journals and Papers #pride #fear #humility #hope #courage #ethics

[earlgodwin]

"It’s interesting that Juan’s attempt at relieving pain is through closeness and hugging and love. When he forgives Cesare at the end saying how they’re brothers and wants to be together, I think that’s genuine. That’s the first time you realize what he’s always wanted." (x)

#“I glimpse us cesare. two brothers in harmony. walking together.” #francois saying cesare refused to listen to juan because he *knows* he can change his mind about killing him still living in my mind #something about cesare humilating juan and making fun of him and even set him up to die at forli by not warning him about ludovico's army #and yet juan still loves him anyway because his jealousy of cesare is unserious unlike cesare's jealousy of juan which is a deadly hatred #ngl juan is so funny because he'd rather die than being sappy. he's too narcissistic and prideful to reach out for cesare or his family #but he only reached out to him in his final moment when he was vulnerable and going through it. it was too late rip #confessing to cesare that he's a fuck-up and he's always been in pain etc i missed you we should love each other wah wah type of speech #juan borgia #cesare borgia #the borgias #juan and cesare #david oakes #francois arnaud #theborgiasedit #periodedits #perioddramaedit #tvedit #cinemapix #tvarchive #by jen

[gummistovelhomsa]

I asked him to take them for one last walk., to the Mall, then to to the men’s room - find a urinal , then look for spilled piss on the floor.. 🙈😆 So that it for me was a Taste of TOTALLY RANDOM MAN PISS 😂 Haha..!

https://x.com/rainwearfaggot/status/1719132725288788330?s=46&t=Hsoju7yF9lEe8Y2tMeAwyw

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[thepersonalwords]

Religiousity is unself glory not purity

indonesia123

#quotes #indonesia123 #thepersonalwords #literature #life quotes #prose #lit #spilled ink #arrogance #arrogant #education #ego #egocentrism #faith #glorifying-god #glory-of-god #glory-of-life #glory-of-one #god #happiness #hope #humility #inspirational #knowledge #life #love #low-profile #motivational #philosophy #pride

[apenitentialprayer]

Fasting can so easily be done with the spirit of pride. And if we think that observing Jesus' command —"do not let your left hand know what your right is doing (Mt 6:3 [cf. 6:16-18])— means never telling anyone anything about our fasting we are mistaken. For the most dangerous audience for spiritual pride is ourselves. For this reason, sharing our Lenten program with someone who knows us well (like a spouse, a close friend or relative, a spiritual advisor), and letting them express their honest opinion about it, and thus being ready to reconsider it — this is a sign of a healthy Lenten fast, or a practice designed to take us out of ourselves, to relativize our wills, and so expand our hearts to embrace the fully cosmic plan of God revealed at Easter. We might grow in some virtue (or at least lose some weight) by giving up sweets for Lent. But, then again, we'll likely grow in many virtues we really need if we submit our program to the judgment of another, and humbly ready ourselves to hear something like, "Oh, that's nice, but perhaps what you might really want to work on this Lent is something like…"

- Fr. John Bayer, O. Cist (Fasting in the Rule of St. Benedict During Lent). Bolded emphases added.

#Cistercians #Benedictine #Catholicism #Christianity #fasting #humility #spiritual direction #pride #Gospel of Matthew #submission #virtue #asceticism #Lent

[swan2swan]

Had the realization last night that one of the main reasons why Zuko had to take a lightning bolt for Katara was because he wasn't used to fighting on a team.

Pretty much every battle he'd fought before was a one-on-one or a free-for-all. Even before he went rogue, it wasn't like he was worried about his soldiers, or facing anyone who was an actual threat.

So it didn't even enter his mind that someone else was in lightning range.

He goaded his sister into attacking him, forgetting that he wasn't a lone wolf anymore, and that every attack he allowed Azula to make was a danger to those around him.

#atla #zuko #azula #Katara #there's something glorious about zuko finally getting all the power he wanted and then succumbing to pride #in the final moments of the duel the champion boasted of his victory and in that moment his deceptive foe pulled a wicked trick #he survived the battle and still claimed victory but he was forever left with a scar as a reminder of his arrogance #a mark to truly remind him of his humility #but this one is easily covered and hidden--a mark only he and those closest to him would see #likewise Katara was also not used to fighting alongside someone who wasn't keeping track of her #she was used to fighting on a team and having backup or watching her own back when she's alone #so she wasn't prepared to defend herself and didn't get herself to safety before the lightning flashed #but she was more than ready to fight on her own

[serkinsworld]

Say hi daddy 😈👿

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[fumifooms]

The core of Fullmetal Alchemist: All is one and Dwarf in the flask

Dwarf in a bottle is in my top 5 favorite FMA characters. No, not Father, that emotionless bland white bread empty husk, Dwarf, the whole. The sort of ball of void, the existential anomaly, so inhumanely human full with sins and individuality.

Fullmetal Alchemist is about willpower. About determination, about pursuing your goals without relenting. It is also about humility and about knowledge.

That is reflected in both the protagonist and the villain, though it is a theme common in most characters.  Both Edward and Dwarf in a bottle pursue their goals with great determination and will. Then, what is good with the manner of one and wrong with the other’s?

I believe a lot of it is about the very concept Dwarf symbolizes. Dwarf in the flask is artificiality.

An alchemy-made life. An artificial family. An artificial pursuit of knowledge and power, without caring about the journey of self-betterment that comes along with it, without caring to understand alchemy and its place in the world. Not only an artifical physical being, but also artificial emotionally; ripping apart his feelings and personality traits deemed negative to make himself into a “superior” being.

I think it’s also worth noting that yes, purging sins out of himself makes him lose those traits, even feelings. Then, if not greed, if not it all, what is pushing Father to pursue power? Greed said it himself: greed isn’t inherently bad, it’s the act of wanting. Father isn’t spiraling into a mad passion for alchemy, a pursuit of knowledge for innovation, or anything, he pursued his plan because he went through the motions, simply. As his feelings left him, all that stayed was the conviction without reasoning that since it was his plan before, he should see it to the end. Or perhaps it’s the course of action he logically came to. Perhaps alchemical enlightenment was deemed the obvious ultimate goal to have, without being interested in why it is or why it should be. Regardless, he lacks the passion and emotional intelligence to actually see the value in what he is doing, in alchemy, and ultimately that is what is punished.

I want to do a full dissection of the whole homunculus family, but I’m going to touch on some aspects of it here because it’s such an interesting topic to me. Disregarding Lust’s claim that homunculi are all individuals with a full range of emotions for a moment, I want to analyze what their traits mean in the angle that they fundamentally formed a whole all together as Father, or Dwarf in the flask.  The homunculus that is shown to be the most attached to his family members is Gluttony. The homunculus that is shown to be the most attached to relationships, in general, is Greed. Greed and Gluttony are then the homunculi, the traits, that care about people the most. And that makes sense, no? You don’t want to lose things you care about, you want to bathe in their love and their presence, and you want to keep having them for as long as you want, greed and gluttony aren’t unsimilar. Greed is interested in friendship and having companions, in possessing people’s hearts and loyalties, in making new connections and bonding with new faces. Gluttony is more interested in getting more of what he already has, more love in that way he already likes by the person he already loves, like wanting more of the familiar taste of its favorite meal. Other similar traits are pride and envy, the traits that affect your self-image. The feeling that you are remarkable and great and the feeling of wanting what others have or are, valuing yourself vs comparing yourself to others. By detaching parts of a whole, things get lost; Pride feels wholly superior but is ready to do anything to preserve himself including lowering himself to inferior beings going against his own code, while Envy only covers up his self-hatred and jealousy but would rather end himself before accepting to sully himself with the compassion of someone he looks down upon. Pride makes one value self-preservation, while envy is self-destructive by nature, perhaps. It is interesting that both feel prideful, yet Pride doesn’t reflect the fact that as part of a whole it also felt shame and low self-esteem, otherized, and Envy doesn’t reflect that Dwarf actually feels pride over traits they possess, as well. The truth is that these things coexisted in the one being that was Dwarf. Fragmented as they are, they only tell an uncomplete and incoherent story, like a puzzle. It’s ironic that maybe together, all these sins balance each other out to become healthier, less dysfunctional. Like a family, they can offer counterbalance to a trait when it becomes too central to the individual, offer support through their grounding presence. Someone slothful may feel unmotivated without greed to give them goals, pride without envy will make you stop striving to better yourself and envy without pride will give you self-loathing.

An analysis of Dwarf isn’t complicated to do: it was a being brought about by scholars and complex alchemy, enslaved, and it wished to get the power to free itself and become an individual equal/superior to everyone else. Unable to become physically and fundamentally human, he attempted to become a proxy, close enough to it; making a family, gaining a human form, etc. It ultimately wished to pursue superiority through alchemical power and knowledge when he found the result lacking, when it still didn’t feel human, couldn’t connect with others, still felt fundamentally different, like his place in the universe was somewhere else, like striving for that higher calling would solve it. Blinded by lust to find belonging, wether it be in a place or in a role, it pushed itself to extremes of alchemy in the hope it will all make sense once he gets there. Ultimately futile, as he will end up feeling betrayed and abandoned by Truth itself, not able to rise up to its own expectations once more: because there’s no magic able to make one feel whole. He seeked to sculpt himself into a perfect being, one that could be anything and do anything, one that couldn’t be reproached, if not by humans, then the world itself would confirm and showcase his objective superiority for all to see.

Much like with Shou Tucker, this pursuit for knowledge and power is all for external factors, there is no inner fuel for it besides pride, shame, desperate want that was displaced onto alchemy instead of the self-introspection that alchemy promotes and necessitates. Dwarf ended up missing what was right under his nose, and subsequently failed the test of Truth and lost everything. What he was working towards ultimately meant nothing, not to anyone and not even to himself.

Edward was able to face Truth right because he took the time to understand, learned to not abuse it, reflected on what it all meant, on the place of things in the universe. That is terrifying for Dwarf, who is terrified he may simply have no place in it, but it is nonetheless essential. The other homunculi are proof enough: Greed had friends, was accepted in the friend group of our heroes as a trustworthy and dependable person, Ling would have preferred him to stay with him forever instead of leaving. Selim gets a second chance at life with someone who has loved him with all her heart… Which is the most confusing part of FMA I have no idea how he didn’t die ngl but I’m glad for the precious lil guy~ Even Lust and Gluttony found companionship and care in being together.

Dwarf has always had a place. He simply refused to philosophizes, and alchemists are ultimately philosophers. Not thinking power through, not analyzing it, is what leads to corrupt military states. Dwarf wanted to be recognized and accepted by god and the world itself, by showing himself worthy of it and demanding it, but he was the one who rejected the nature of the world first:

One is all, all is one.

He is the very embodiment of refusing that. Dwarf always had a place in the world, artificial anomaly as he was. Perhaps Dwarf wasn’t meant to be part of this all or this one initially, not created by the world, but. Dwarf seeked to become both all and none at once. He was born artificial, but never cared to learn the rules of nature and accept the limits of the world, seeking to destroy and warp them; he was the one that desired to make himself even more distinct from the world and label himself as a perfect, artificial being. Rejecting individuality to become some empty looking glass was the mistake Edward Elric didn’t make, growing to find the value in every type of life and finding the strength to keep going through every horror of the world. Dwarf’s folly was thinking that he was separate from the rest of existence.

The philosophical dimension to the value of gold or philosopher’s stones are the important part of alchemy, power isn’t what you achieve enlightenment through. May your pursuit of knowledge be wise and your resolve aim true.

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I recommend this analysis by another tumblr user as complementary reading!! It goes over way more than I did and encompasses more of fma than this post, I just wanted to focus on a fraction of the themes and narrative that I found summed up the story’s key points well… Idk idk I’m a humble Dwarf enjoyer I don’t want to come across as pretentious 🙇 I can only hope this was a nice read. If you don’t remember the ending of the manga/brotherhood well I imagine this being very confusing, I should do something about that

#fullmetal alchemist #fmab #i might spice this post with screenshots and pics one day #dwarf in the flask #father fma #edward elric #Analysis #Homunculi fma #Envy fma #Pride fma #gluttony fma #greed fma #The lesson of Pride & Envy: If you only have Pride you’ll only remember that you love yourself #But you need Envy too to remind you that you… Hate others and yourself…? #Jkjk envy in a way represents humility when in a not so extreme condensed form but I found that funny #Spoilers #fma spoilers #It isn’t to say that Dwarf’s fragmenting is all bad though like we see with Greed. #As much as traits may balance each other out and as much as the homunculi clashed together sometimes in ways that impeded their progress #we saw how unhealthy of an individual dwarf in the flask already was before splitting itself. #With Greed we see that a tiny part of this all that’s itself part of a bigger all aka the world #can still be part of it and do the bettering and thinking needed to become someone with values #character analysis #Me watching Dwarf absorb god and tearing up bc it’s so tragic that he was fueled by a desperate want to belong and prove himself and #Bitterness and a sense of superiority #Tfw u a lil science experiment made by scholars who thinks that it is through research and pursuit of scientific and academic knowledge onl #That u can achieve anything completely missing the emotional or ethical dimension… Or like u know. Just like. Wondering if it’ll make u #Actually happy #What if trying to bring himself closer to smth like a human was just bc all the alchemical research and results are made by humans so he #Thinks it’ll up his chance bc the method was already tailored and scientific method and whatnot…

[meowriza47]

Hey I'm I looking cool at all ?🥰

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[druidshollow]

still trying to figure out how i wanna draw humility. idk yet idk idk

#encourage humility #druid draw #dragon oc #dragon #burning with pride

[philosophybits]

Nowadays men shun mercy, but try to be brave; they abandon economy, but try to be generous; they do not believe in humility, but always try to be first. This is certain death.

Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 67)

#philosophy #quotes #Laozi #Daodejing #bravery #mercy #humility #arrogance #pride #vanity #ego

[mindofserenity]

ﻭَﻗﺖ

We often take Time for granted.

Time is the most precious of jewels. With every second passing, our loved ones grow older, and our memories begin to fade. Do not waste it by sulking upon the littlest and temporary concerns.

Do not let your pride blind you from your blessings, allowing you to forget to treasure them.

#mindofserenity #time #writing #pride #humility #subhanallah #islamic reminders #islam #sabr #quotes #muslim #islamic quotes #islam help #muslimah #revert #arabic quotes #arabic #islamic post #islamic #welcome to islam #islamquotes #patience

[lemonduckisnowawake]

Everyone talks about how Roy killed Lust as a symbolic proof that he is devoted to actual love but no one talks about how Envy was outed by Riza almost immediately as a symbol of her always accepting what she has and even being content with it. Maybe love IS a narrative force and theme to be reckoned with (and rightly so!), but content when you have so many reasons not to be and when others sometimes have what you don't? That's super cool, too

#technically we can also talk about how greed was defeated by satisfaction #which was via the power of friend *mlp theme song starts playing* #and how pride was defeated when edward did not consider anything above the philosophy of don't take human lives #even if that soul was stolen....it was a life to edward enough. that IS humility actually #(humility. btw. does not exclude being glorified and raised above) #AND i will not forget to say that lan fan killed bradley as an example of how virtue does not exclude anger #but my hissiness about revenge narratives keep me from really tackling that. sorry lan fan #ANYWAY the point is riza has found contentment and acceptance despite everything #lemon duck quacks #fmab