“Klieg, Klieg, Klieg-Du bist a Nar. You are smart, smart, smart – but you are not so smart!”
Question for Meditation: What do you know, and what do you still have to learn?
Category: Humility
“He, who takes himself to be the lowest of the lowly, He alone is the highest of the high. He, whose mind is humble like the dust, He alone Worships the Lord in his heart.”
Question for Meditation: How can you make your mind humble?
“Remember your Lord inwardly with humility and reverence and in a moderate tone of voice, both morning and evening. And do not be one of the heedless.”
Question for Meditation: What do you do just so others can see?
“Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves, each looking out not for his own interests, but [also] everyone for those of others.”
Question for Meditation: What can you do this weekend to care for another?
“‘I am gift.’ All that I am is something that’s given, and given freely. Being doesn’t cost anything. There’s no price tag, no strings attached.”
Question for Meditation: What does this thought free you to do or be?
“Only that which is done not for fame or name, nor for thanks from those for whom it is done, is love’s service.”
Question for Meditation: What do you do only in the service of love?
“When life feels too big to handle, go outside. Everything looks smaller when you’re standing under the sky.”
Question for Meditation: Do something today that allows you to embrace your smallness.
“Now, therefore, after ascending all these steps of humility, the monk will quickly arrive at that perfect love of God which casts out fear.”
Question for Meditation: How can humility conquer fear?
“The ‘true’ servants of the Most Compassionate are those who walk on the earth humbly, and when the foolish address them ‘improperly,’ they only respond with peace.”
Question for Meditation: How does humility help you “respond with peace”?
“God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.”
Question for Meditation: How do you receive God?
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