Humility

I have had it on my mind for several days now to write a Blog about the virtue known as Humility.  These inspirations for the subject of my blogs come from a variety of sources and lately I have felt myself being called to exercise humility over and over again.  Accepting that we could all use much more practice at this, I am going to write about it.  Also, it brings to mind the Ben Franklin writing, "Being Virtuous" where he creates 13 virtues and then writes about his accomplishments while attempting mastery of them.  You will likely see more postings along this thread.
Check out :

www.artofmanliness.com

for more information on Ben Franklin's list.

So back to the practice of humility.  Let's go to our trusted source, the dictionary, shall we?
from www.freedictionary.com


Humility:  A disposition to be patient or long suffering.  A lack of false pride.
Humble:  marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude or spirit.  Not arrogant or prideful
Low in rank, quality or station.  Unpretentious or lowly.
Showing differential or dismissive respect.

After mulling over the meaning of Humble and Humility, I see why this poses such a tremendous challenge to each and every American.  We seem to only be humble under great pressure or with the weight of others' tremendous generosity upon us...which may also be false humility, but any should be better then none.  From reading The Secret and The Power, I know that I must place "humble" thoughts alongside "grateful" thoughts because I cannot truly be grateful before being humble. Being humble requires a quiet inner self and a calm spirit.  A person cannot achieve genuine humility without meditation and inner peace.  I want to personally Thank Ghandi and Mother Theresa and Nelson Mandela and so many other peacemakers who exercised humility and set this example for us to follow and learn and achieve as they did, Inner Peace...REAL success.

Wanting things and wanting experiences does not make us arrogant, but placing others' needs below our own or ignoring the feelings of others does.  Arrogance is the mortal enemy of Humility and destroys our good character bit by bit.  I am saying these things because I know from personal experience what arrogance and a lack of humility will destroy.  It tears everything in your life apart.  Perhaps we should analyze some of the Bible's favorite reminders about arrogance. The following are from www.thinkexist.com :

~arrogance diminshes wisdom
~the truest characters of ignorance are vanity, pride and arrogance
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you
~the meek shall inherit the earth
~wisdom is humble that he knows no more
~If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.”

Ok, I think I made a point here that there is a lot we can consider and learn by adopting an attitude of humility.  And by attitude I mean a life adjusting way of living kind of character! As in all my Blogs, there is a point...there is an issue underlying my topic of choice.  there are so many things I WANT all the time.  I want a better wardrobe, a more beautiful physique, the perfect haircolor and cut...I want a Few Million Dollars to spend however I desire and to go on trips with.  I want the most wonderful home and the perfect clients.  The law of Attraction teaches me that I have all those things...or that I must believe I do and therefore, I DO!  In time, those things that I wish to see in my life will appear as long as I believe in them.  During my daily meditations I refer to my vision board.  On my vision board is ONE vision.  I was careful to create a single theme for this board...to see my life at a glance.  It has a car...pictures of my husband and kids and clippings of a Spanish Hacienda home and property.  I visualize myself living in this home in Florida and I see my family moving about doing their mundane life activities...living.  In time, I know I will live here.

Today I am humble because although several people have caused me heartache and even tears (I confess...they did make me cry with their rude and calloused behavior towards me)...others were there for me.  Others showed me kindness, interest, LOVE....they asked me to share my feelings.  This required humility on my part to share with them that I was hurt.  BUT...the best part of my day of learning humility the hard way was that I was hugged...Alberta hugged me and Raul hugged me...ALL the kids hugged me and even David showed me affection.  So I know...I KNOW...I know...that Love is always there.  sometimes you just need to squint your eyes really hard and turn your head and sorta look hard for it....but it IS there.

~namaste