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Those who know do not speak;

Those who speak do not know.

Stop your sense

Let sharp things be blunted,

Tangles resolved,

The light tempered

And turmoil subdued;

For this is mystic unity

in which the wise man is moved

Neither by affection

Nor yet by estrangement

Or profit or loss

Or honor or shame.

Accordingly, by all the world,

He is held highest.¹⁵

A gung fu man, if he is really good, is not proud at all. “Pride,” according to Mr. Eric Hoffer, “is a sense of worth that derives from something that is not organically part of oneself.”¹⁶ Pride emphasizes the importance of the superiority of a person’s status in the eyes of others. There is fear and insecurity in pride because when a person aims at being highly esteemed and achieves such status, he is automatically involved in the fear of losing his status. Then protection of his status appears to be his most important need, and this creates anxiety. Mr. Hoffer further states that: “The less promise and potency in the self, the more imperative is the need for pride. One is proud when he identifies himself with an imaginary self; the core of pride is self-rejection.”¹⁷