“Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights” Henry David Thoreau
Humility is the best way to keep yourself grounded and of this Earth. When we feel normal in a place of the middle not too good and not to bad, we are happy and life seems to just go along as it should. When things happen that bring us down; make us feel human, they hurt, make us sad, or even a little depressed, we find ways back up. When we are experiencing those things, the only way to go is up, to feel better. It seems as though everything goes our way, and we find gratitude in the things that happen and the things in our lives. Our spirits seem to soar, bringing us elation that we have regained a sense of normalcy, living life as we should. Feeling great; we want to continue that feeling of elation and happiness and the soaring of our spirit. Things continue to seem to be going our way and we start to feel as though we could explode with the joy that we are living life in the sunlight of the good times. Herein we can face a problem unless we consciously face this point with humility. When we are in this state, moving further from normal in the good times, we can get to a point where we become manic trying harder and harder to keep the feeling growing. We tend to want more and more things to happen that keep that feeling growing and it feels great when they do. When we do experience a normal setback pushing us back to more of the normal plane of life; if we have gotten to high on the elation scale or spiritual plane, the feeling of normal can feel like a low, though it is our natural state. This is the place where we are most in touch with both our human and our spiritual existence. Humility is the key to continued growth while staying in touch with where we come from and where we could be; in a state of almost readiness for the things that may seem negative to happen, even to a point where when something does happen it is welcomed as a little set back, not as a devastating blow or the end of the world. When we feel well and wonderful we need to be humble to the fact that we love that feeling, remembering that need to give thanks for where we are, give back to keep it, share in the greatness, living as a good example of the humility for where we are at. It is our way to understand that; for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. We can look at is as though we are balancing someone else’s below normal times with our good times in kind of a give and take from the collective conscience which is fine, but we need to protect ourselves from that distance between being spiritually, mentally, emotionally or financially high and being normal. Scott Henning
Humiliation is first, then Humility, followed by Humor. I don’t just say that, its in the dictionary that way.
Humility and being humble is a paradox in that we gain strength through, showing weakness. To make sense of our position in this world, understanding we are no better or worse than any other person. We accept the things we can change and those we cannot, facing all challenges with ballance in strength through weakness.
“The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.”
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” Albert Einstein
“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. ” James E. Faust
Pride is the deadliest of all sins and is like a cancer that eats away at all virtue until there is none. Humility is the cure.
LIVE
The problem relationship and lack of things we want are always part of our present life. What happened in the past has everything to do with what we are today, but shouldn’t keep us from having the relationships and things we want in the future. We can only satisfy our needs right now and plan to continue satisfying them in the future.
LEARN FROM THE PAST
If we fail to learn from the things we have done in the past, we are more likely to repeat the same mistakes now and in the future. Sometimes it may take making the same mistake a couple times to really learn from them. Ideally, when we make a mistake or do something that did not turn out the way we would like it, we would correct it, make it right and find another way to go about accomplishing what we set out to do. When we don’t see that it was a wrong move until well after the fact, we should do whatever we can to take corrective measures, as soon as possible and look to find a bright spot to focus on while we look for that other way to get done what we set out to do.
FEEL YOUR POWER
“He who exalts himself will be humbled and he who humbles himself will be exalted” Matthew 23:12
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”
Accountabiliy is a practice in humility. The times when things are going well or have gone well, the way we wanted or expected them to go, gives us the opportunity to be humble, ensuring that we dont raise ourselves too high or place ourselves on a pedistal. Doing so just sets us up for disapointment and possibly having unneeded presure to perform at that level again placed on us. When things go bad or wrong and we can own it we learn that humility is a good place to begin our next endevour.
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up. -Jesse Jackson
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. -C. S. Lewis
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. -Thomas Merton
“Thank you” is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. -Alice Walker
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. -Charles Caleb Colton
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it. -Mignon McLaughlin
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. -Simone Weil
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new. -Steven Tyler
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot. -Thomas Moore