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@@ -37562,3 +37562,19 @@ eventually be possible to attain liberation from all states of existence
 conditioned by ignorance and be free of suffering.(p.45)
   -- "Images of Enlightenment: Tibetan Art in Practice", by Jonathan Landaw
      and Andy Weber, published by Snow Lion Publications
+~
+  We must distinguish between pride and self-confidence.  Self-confidence is
+necessary.  It is what enables us, in certain situations, not to lose courage
+and to think with some justification, 'I am capable of succeeding.' Self-
+confidence is quite different from excessive self-assurance based on a false
+appreciation of our capacities or circumstances.
+  If you feel able to accomplish a task that other people cannot manage, then
+you cannot be called proud as long as your assessment is well founded.  It is
+as if someone tall came across a group of short people who wanted to get
+something too high for them to reach, and said to them, 'Don't exert
+yourselves, I can do it.' This would simply mean that he was more qualified
+than the others to carry out a particular task, but not that he is superior to
+them or that he wants to crush them.(p.259)
+  -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, "365 Dalai Lama: Daily Advice from the
+     Heart", edited by Matthieu Ricard, translated by Christian Bruyat,
+     published by Snow Lion Publications