A man who does not ultimately have a high opinion of themself, cannot become a "Great Man".
That being said, our greatness must lie on the real foundation of being sparks of God. God does not create crappy imperfect things; He creates Divine things that He Loves, things with real and eternal meaning and value. Everything around His company is pure and blissful and full of knowledge, including we, the souls. He also has a perfect blissful Home and Family for all of us. Real happiness begins when eternal Life is found !
We suffer and become humbled by His will, when we inhabit the material worlds and bodies and try to lord it over vast Nature, despite being currently shrunken and imprisoned in matter, with nothing but pains and limitations. Our pleasure is release from a higher degree of suffering to a lesser one. It is not real pleasure, but escape from suffering, like a beached fish getting a bucket of water thrown by a sympathetic human.
Therefore, we must return to our original created status,rertuern rto the spiritual seas, otherwise we assume a false self and body, and like the fish on the hot dry beach...
If you do not believe in a perfect God that created perfect souls, with individual free will, you are left with imperfection and suffering.
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