Arrogance: Conceit, self-importance, egotism.
Arrogance cares more about being right than what is right.
Arrogance gets more joy out of being seen, reading the book, driving the car or helping the person than actually reading the book, driving the car or helping the person.
Arrogance is pointing to goodness and not being able to fully appreciate it because you’re too busy being distracted by the beauty of your finger.
Emerson writes, in compensation, that the fruit is sown in the seed.
‘The Dice of God are always loaded.’
Eternal justice is perfect and while time may separate the blessing or the cursing from the act, as surely as night follows day, a just compensation always comes.
If this is true then it’s entirely possible to ‘put God in our debt‘ by endeavoring to plant good seeds everywhere we go.
Dope, or dopamine, seems to be a type of chemical messenger that runs between the cells in our brains with pom poms shouting “YAY, Let’s celebrate, this is AWESOME!”
When this happens we get a little shot of pleasure, causing us to want to do the thing we just did, again.
My friend Todd told me about the power of checking off items on a ‘to do’ list and how each time you did this, you’d get a little shot of dopamine.