Showing These Five Characteristics Ensures Humility and Self-Effacement
Not Where It’s At: Pleasing People and Seeking Success
Some people want their names to endure in the hearts of history. What if your name fades from the mortal mind, but the Ultimate One is pleased with you? Wouldn’t you be considered a treasure in all worlds?
I have considered these five statements as characteristics of humility and self-effacement, the opposite of self-importance, success, and power.
- A person will impart excellence to the human world to the extent that they sever themselves from attachment to things.
Severance is the loftiest station destined for humankind.
2. Society exerts a pernicious influence upon the soul. Instead of allowing us to live a life of service and sacrifice, it teaches us to pride ourselves on our accomplishments.
From early childhood, our significant others train us to develop our ego, seek happiness at others’ expense, and achieve self-importance, success, and power.
3. The soul needs to be decorated with the virtues of humility and self-effacement so it may become detached from vain imagination and selfish fantasy.
4. We could disengage egotistical personalities by giving authority to local, national, or international institutions when the individuals privileged to serve on them are devoid of any power.
5. Virtues are not intrinsically our own. When we acknowledge that they are manifestations of the attributes of God, then we are freed from attachment to things and power.
Then, we become genuinely humble.
I write about addiction to substances, behaviors, and thistles of the soul.
I am a retired rehab counselor aware of the changes in addiction treatment during my almost five decades in the addiction field. I aim to increase awareness, plant nourish, and cultivate ideas, images, and emotions about the challenge of addiction to humanity. I stopped drinking long enough to get an education. although starting and stopping several times after that, I stopped picking up o October 16, 1976. Clean and sober another day, I have another day added to the string. I have not had time to be an intellectual, an Arnold look-alike, or anything colossal except a person with an addiction.
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