Egotism is an absurd passion which is literally a scourge of humankind.
We all suffer from this dread disease. Self-centred people are made ridiculous and a spectacle by their egotism.
God calls upon us to fight this egotism and overcome it, to cast it off.
» Elder Ephraim of Arizona
Source: pemptousia.com
http://www.diakonima.gr/2015/04/04/our-ignominy/