The first step of pride is curiosity. How does it show itself? You see one who up to this time had every appearance of being an excellent monk. Now you begin to notice that wherever he is, standing, walking, or sitting, his eyes are wandering, his glance darts right and left, his ears are cocked. Some change has taken place in him; every movement shows it. 'The perverse man winks with his eye, nudges with his foot, points with his finger'. These symptoms show his soul has caught some disease. He used to watch over his own conduct; now all his watchfulness is for others. 'He does not know himself so he must go forth to pasture his goats.' Goats are a symbol of sin and I am applying the word to his eyes and ears. They are windows through which death creeps into the soul, as death came into the world by sin. These are the flocks the curious man tends, while he lets his soul starve. 'My man! If you gave yourself the attention you ought, I do not think you would have much time to look after others!'