Page 30 - All India Magazine Jul-2025

Ambitions, Pride and Vanity

Vanity: one of the most frequent forms of falsehood.
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It is better to be than to seem to be.
Vanity is the most serious obstacle to true greatness.
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There was a time when your amour-propre was a great help. It
saved you from doing many stupid things by telling you that
they were beneath your dignity. But now it is the greatest ob-
stacle in your way.
CWM 14: 280

Timidity is a form of vanity. When you are timid, it means that
you attach more importance to the opinion others have of you
than to the sincerity of your action.
CWM 14: 280

The disease: a narrow and egoistic ambition in the mind ex-
pressing itself as a strong vanity in the vital, thus distorting
your ideas of things and your reactions.
The remedy: surrender all that to "Sweet Mother" complete-
ly and definitively.
With my loving solicitude and my blessings
CWM 16: 54

Pride: a great obstacle to progress.
It is not the soul but the ego and its pride that feel defeat
and humiliation.
CWM 14: 259

The best thing we can do to express our gratitude is to over-
come all egoism in ourselves and make a constant effort to-
wards this transformation. Human egoism refuses to abdicate

30 All India Magazine, July 2025