Humility

We people are sparks inclined to mistake ourselves for galaxies. There is truth in the indentification of spark with galaxy, but a truth is true only when its limits are observed. Humility is the observation of this particular truth, the fundamental truth of relationship between finite part and infinite whole.

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Humility is proactive humiliation. Do it yourself or it will be done to you.

2 thoughts on “Humility

  1. Like a hippocratic dagger to my spirit! Thank you, Stephen, for writing those words, those truths.

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