The sixth step of pride: self-conceit.56
Ladders they see and not seeing the hidden intentions, they canon ize the unfortunate one and confirm you in your self-delu sion.
The sixth step of pride: self-conceit You swallow all the praise others give you. You are quite complacent about your conduct and you never examine your motives now. The good opinion of others is all you need. About everything else you think you know more than anybody, but when they say something favorable about you, you believe them against your own conscience. So now not only in words and affected conduct do you display your piety but you believe in your inmost heart that you are holier than others. It never occurs to you that the praise given to you comes from ignorance or kindness. Your pride thinks it only your due. So, after singularity, self-conceit comes sixth, and the seventh is presumption.
The seventh step of pride: presumption When you think you are better than others will you not put yourself before others? You must have the first place in gatherings, be the first to speak. You come without being called. You interfere without being asked. You must arrange everything, re-do whatever has been done. What you your self did not do or arrange is not rightly done or properly arranged. You are the judge of all judges and decide every case beforehand. If you are called to some ordinary task you refuse disdainfully. A person fitted for higher positions could not be occupied with lesser things.
Since you are so liberal, even reckless, in offering your services, sooner or later you will make some blunders. Will