Can you specify what is humilty and what are the great rewards of being without arrogance and useless pride?
Humility to me is just silence in the mind and being a reciever of others words not a critic. The common sense that at no time can I think I know anything that can be proven and one opinion ultimatley is as good as mine. Without pride and arrogance I can hear and see others, not just myself and rid myself of any false ideas it makes you open to everyones words less a moral than a tool really God bless, peace
It is to see others as true equals to love and understand your never going to be the best at everything. Using this knoweledge I can be more a peace with everything around me, be a little less aggressive, competitive, and a whole lot less boastful.
i read somewhere once that the root meaning of the word humility means "to know your place" humility has been misunderstood as being a doormat...is that why you think it's bad, eugene? i understand humility as the peace of knowing that true being is just that: being, and all things and people arise in it, made of it, equal and all deserving love. our true nature never changes - we just have different ideas about how we manifest within that nature.
pride is feeling pleasure concerning ones' accomplishments and is not something that can or should be repressed.
pride is selfish and feeling like you are better than others - pride is something we could do without... find other words to express yourself. look up pride and proud in the dictionary. pride gets in the way of being a good person. we should be humble. i impress myself with my efforts and accomplishments all the time but i do not feel superior to anyone in doing so - therefore it is better that i find another word to express how i feel so that people dont naturally think that i think i am better than they are by saying that i am proud. dont be a proud parent be a parent who is very pleased with their child’s progress. being proud suggests that you think you child is better than everyone else’s. it is true - if you dont believe me look it up.
Well stated. To me humility is being down on the same level as everybody else, without putting yourself or your social group on a pedestal above other people. I dated a girl once who had absolutely no sense of humilty because she lived her life on a pedestal, was born and raised that way and thought it was normal because it was the only life she had ever known. Needless to say the relationship didn't last long after that. I developed a pretty strong resentment for her parents for raising her that way and was pretty devistated when she took the opinion that she had a god-given right to lie to me simply because she had never been held to the same levels of acountability as everybody else. A touch of humilty would have worked wonders for that family, and the sad part is people like that can't even see how their actions effect the other people around them.
