Necesidadde la Noche oscura: la mortificacion de la soberbia.SIGNOS DE LA Humildad verdadera en el proreso espiritual IHemos ya visto los signos d ela soberbia: Deseo de hablar vanamente de las cosas espirituales, serMaestros. 2el despreciodel projimo. 3lapresunciondequerer buscar maestrosquesigansucamino. 4. el ser tenido en santo y bueno del conesor. !.enojarse y perder la pa" por las propasaltas# $os advierte el santo Doctor:there are hardly any such beginners who, at the time of these signsof fervour, fall not into some of these errors.%s muy distinto de aquel que progresa verdaderamente, el signo es la humiladnot only thinkingnaught of their own affairs, but having very little satisfaction withthemselves&os signos son los opuestos a lo que hemos ya enumeado al hablar de la soberbia:'. el considerar los otros mejores y el darse cuenta que no hacen mucho por Dios: they consider all others as far better, and usually have a holy envy of them, and an eagerness toserve God as they do. For the greater is their fervour, and the more numerous are the works thatthey perform, and the greater is the pleasure that they take in them, as they progress in humility, themore do they realize how much God deserves of them, and how little is all that they do for His sake;and thus, the more they do, the less are they satisfied. !unto a esto el no "uerer ser estimado: they never notice what others do or do not; or if they do notice it, they always believe, as I say, thatall others are far better than they themselves. herefore, holding themselves as of little worth, theyare an!ious that others too should thus hold them, and should despise and depreciate that whichthey do. "nd further, if men should praise and esteem them, they can in no wise believe what theysay; it seems to them strange that anyone should say these good things of them.El deseo de ser enseado: #. $ogether with great tran%uillity and humbleness, these souls have a deep desire to be taught byanyone who can bring them profit; they are the complete opposite of those of whom we have spokenabove, who would fain be always teaching, and who, when others seem to be teaching them, takethe words from their mouths as if they knew them already. La docilidad al director espiritual en todo y de no habalr de cosas espirtuales:$hese souls, on the other hand, being far from desiring to be the masters of any, are very ready totravel andset out onanotherroadthanthat whichtheyareactuallyfollowing, if theybesocommanded, because they never think that they are right in anything whatsoever. $hey re&oice whenothers are praised; they grieve only because they serve not God like them. $hey have no desire tospeak of the things that they do, because they think so little of them that they are ashamed to speakof them even to their spiritual masters, since they seem to them to be things that merit not beingspokenof. $heyaremorean!ious tospeakof their faults andsins, or that theseshouldberecognized rather than their virtues; and thus they incline to talk of their souls with those whoaccount their actions and their spirituality of little value. #or ultimo el no perder la pa$ por las propias imperfecciones en llo "ue se ven caidos: $he imperfections into which they see themselves fall they bear with humility, meekness of spiritand a loving fear of God, hoping in Him. San %uan de la &ru$ termina este prmer capitolo con una advertencia mu' especial "ue nosrecuerda la importancia de entrar en la noche oscura del sentido:'ut souls who in the beginning &ourney with this kind of perfection are, asI understand, and as has been said, a minority, and very few are those who we can beglad do not fall into the opposite errors. For this reason, as we shall afterwards say, Godleads into the dark night those whom He desires to purify from all these imperfectionsso that He may bring them farther onward.