Humility is the key to constant joy among all the evil passions that torment a person, the most harmful, including to our mood, is pride. Pride is the main cause of suicide and everything that precedes it. gloom, despair, depression. A proud person not only cannot be happy, he cannot help but be unhappy. Therefore, we will dwell on overcoming this desire in more detail. What is pride or pride? The passion of pride lifts us above other people, above circumstances, above God himself. It hurts us all the circumstances in which something happens against our will, it's unpleasant for all those people who don't look at us. It makes us hate even ourselves for not being as glorious, perfect and powerful as we would like to be. In general, in all cases, pride kills love, gives rise to resentment, hatred, envy, grumbling, arrogance and other passions. Pride makes man blind: he does not see his own dimensions, including pride itself, and does not see the wonderful qualities of other people and all the gifts that God gives him. Pride makes a person a loser, because in order to expose pride, so that the blind can see and humble himself, God destroys the plans of the proud: "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." The opposite of pride is humility. If the word "humility" seems gray, unpleasant and almost humiliating to someone, it means that he is a proud person, and pride has defamed this amazing quality of humility in the eyes of that person. Humility makes a person strong and invulnerable. Nothing can upset a modest person, he is always ready for anything, both pleasant and not so pleasant, he takes everything for granted. A proud person is like a puddle: throw a stone into it and it will splash everyone around you with mud. And a humble person is like the sea: it will swallow every stone without a trace, and even circles on the water will not go. The Syrian monk Ephraim says: "Humility, which takes upon itself all the blows, remains.