HUMILITY --  Week 2

HUMILITY is the attitude of experiencing the world and what it contains with wonder and awe.  It is about seeing ourselves as a small part of a vast cosmos, inhabited by people and creatures from whom we  can learn. 

Humility is quiet strength.  In some cultures, it is considered quite normal to be loud and assertive about what we think and what we want. Yet there is something dignified about people who are sincerely humble.

Even if they are prominent and successful, they have the wisdom and experience to understand their limitations. A person with humility can see beyond their own viewpoint and interests.

Humility shifts our perspective from ‘me’ to ‘others’ and is delighted to do so.

16G for Life book

Topics for discussion:  (From 16-G PDF)

1.  How does the quality of humility change our perspective from ‘me’ to ‘we’? What does it feel like to be with a person who embodies humility in this way?   

2.    A lack of humility might show up as low self-esteem.  
How can self-compassion help turn feelings of low self-esteem into the quiet strength of humility? 

 .... or whatever is alive in you.