TRUE HUMILITY IS NOT A SIGN OF PASSIVITY. It is not a submission to the forces that oppose the essential needs of life, of self. Neither is humility an indication of personal weakness. The humble person realizes that there is no singleness to life. We are not isolated beings any more than a healthy cell is in a multicellular organism. Intelligent restraint so evident in humbleness is recognition of that Greater Self that must be served. This Greater Self is not an abstract, esoteric concept, or, a mere ideal. If humanity is a living social organism, then each human is a cell in that organism, the Greater Self. Aggression exercised solely for the needs of the Individual Self is a malignancy that can destroy the totality upon which all mankind depends. No aggression can advance a man so far personally that he no longer needs that sympathy and compassion which humility engenders. -Ralph M. Lewis (1904-1987
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:47:23 +0000
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