The greatest of virtues that I know are courage, compassion and wisdom. I would add to this Humility. Without humility even if you gather something by courage, it would not stay with you for long. Even if you show compassion on someone but pretend yourself to be superior to the person you are doing compassion on, it’s not accepted well by the other person. Wisdom demonstrated without humility again is considered arrogance. So Humility is one virtue which has to go along as an essential virtue with all human values. And Humility so demonstrated should not be just external but should be through body, mind and emotions.
Sri Ramakrishna used to say that water does not gather on hill tops it gathers in valleys. So also the person who is cocky does not receive the knowledge & inspiration which a person with humility would get. Let’s all become more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree and without any pretension of our power and position.
Humility
May 22, 2009 by amitabhm
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