' Examine Yourself ' ...

Examine yourself, to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance,, or negatively,, whether you have failed to realize, that you are nothing... This feeling of self-importance, is deeply hidden,, but it controls the whole of our life... Its first demand, is that everything should be as we wish it,, and as soon as this is not so, we complain to God, and are annoyed with people. ................... Theophan the Recluse