Here-sick or Homesick?

In a book called “Peace of Mind,” a famous psychiatrist -1 says that “The supreme foe of inner-victory, is rigid pride.” The Bible often calls it being “stiff-necked.” In Biblical terms, it means a kind of know-it-all arrogance that excludes the possibility of admitting the need to change — the need to repent. The stiff-necked person is saying, in effect, “No one, not even God, can enlighten me further.” Oscar Wilde’s “De Profundis” contains a powerful and moving passage describing the author’s personal experience with stiff-necked, rigid pride:

“I bore up against everything with some stubbornness of will and much rebellion of nature, till I had absolutely nothing left in the world but one thing. I had lost my name, my position, my happiness, my freedom, my wealth. I was a prisoner and a pauper. But I still had my children left. Suddenly they were taken away from me by the law. It was a blow so appalling that I did not know what…