humility

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It *is*--is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.To be nothing in the self-effacement of humility, yet, for the sake of the task, to embody its whole weight and importance in your earing, as the one who has been called to undertake it. To give to people, works, poetry, art, what the self can contribute, and to take, simply and freely, what belongs to it by reason of its identity. Praise and blame, the winds of success and adversity, blow over such a life without leaving a trace or upsetting its balance.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the day.

That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn.

It is not your talents that make you great, but your decisions.

Humility is realm of a humble heart.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

The Holy Spirit builds on the smooth ground of humility. That's why God will tear you down in order to build you back up.

Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused.

Humility is not weak, powerless, faint, a pushover, a punching bag or an abuse magnet, because above all _ humility cares.

Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.

Humility puts others first because "first" takes on new meaning through the practice of humility.

Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can't be humble without self-love.

You are the first person who you should treat with humility. Respect yourself and let it overflow to others.

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever changing, and I believe that one should try to change one__ slant accordingly__t least once every ten years. The great heroic devotion to one point of view is very alien to me__t__ a lack of humility. Mayakovsky killed himself because his pride would not be reconciled with something new happening within himself__r around him.

Never pupil was more humble, never pupil more obedient; thinking nothing of himself or of anything he had done or could do, his path was open to the swiftest and highest growth. It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing. The next point will be, whether he is growing at the ratio given him. The key to the whole thing is _obedience_, and nothing else.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul and body)