This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call the mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Pride is the source of every sin, therefore it's the root of all

our problems. Pride is the effort to prove your worth through accomplishments or some personal attribute, like intelligence or strength or beauty and so on.

Now the first step to overcome pride, this effort to prove our

worth through accomplishments or attributes, is to realize it doesn't work.

It doesn't work because you can always be replaced by someone who has more

accomplishments or more of the attribute you rely on.

And when you've been replaced,

your personal value goes to zero.

It doesn't work because there's always someone better than you.

Oh, I remember the day I quit powerlifting competitively.

I watched a 17-year-old deadlift 700 pounds easily. I turned to my friend and said,

I'm done.

And trying to prove our worth and make ourselves relevant doesn't work because nobody

cares about your accomplishments or attributes. In fact, they probably envy you and wish you didn't have them.

That's what envy means.

That way, they will feel better about themselves.

The fact is, the people who love you unconditionally, who value the most, are those

who don't value you for your accomplishments or attributes. They just think you make the world a better place by being in it,

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