THE ROUTE OF PRIDE There is a path that is certainly not the salvation, nor happiness, and thatthat obstant- not usually delve men with ease. It is the path of pride. Let me therefore that in connection with it, you choose some thought and reflection, so that together we learn to recognize it from the first moment and to avoid it forever. The route of pride has a beginning quite sad, because it starts with the denial of God in our souls and in our lives. Someone has noted with great acuity, the atheist and proud to have many points in common. The atheist, indeed, refuses to admit the existence of God through the test creation and creatures; he does not see our Lord in the set. And the pride refuses to recognize God in his heart and in his life: no glimpse of God our Lord for the gifts of nature and grace that enrich their personality and bear fruit in your life. Pride in reality is nothing more than an estimate of disorderly own qualities and their own talents. Not more than excessive and disorderly idea that we made ourselves. We grow deliberately and with caution inside this sort of high concept of our own being, and not allow any shadow, however small, nor any reference to other people and do not support any reproach or correction. We attach to ourselves -forgeting us completely from God our Lord all that we are and all we are worth. And in so doing, to exclude God and others in our lives: I just imported stubbornly says the proud or pleased and looking up with presumption rocking himself. In the souls who follow the path of pride, find no echo those words of St. Paul: What you have that you did not receive? And even those souls surrender before those other words that complete the reasoning of the Apostle: for you boast as if you had not received all that you possess? If there is a way to make complicated souls, is the path of pride. The route is a maze of pride in what souls are lost and disoriented. Pride destroys the simplicity of souls, and that appeared to be without folds is a lovely feature and humble people. How many sheets are formed, for otherwise the soul contaminated by pride.! This cardinal sin indeed induces - increasingly submissiĂł- to retreat continuously on itself: endlessly back and stay with thinking about their own talents on the virtues on their own achievements and that on one occasion or circumstance in which it prevailed. And this is the world, empty and petty, vain of complacency. The inner world is happening in the outside world: the path of pride continues its relentless progression. Everything these people have built within them, it would now build around. And though the Lord said, “ I will not give my glory to othersâ€?, proud soul responded to this divine command appropriating, taking possession, of this glory.