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Originally Posted by James81  I believe Socrates said at best when he said that the wisest of all men realize that they are ignorant.
That's humbleness in a nutshell. That no matter how great you become, you realize that you are no better or no worse than anybody else and that your place in this universe is rather small.
You don't have to be insecure and self-loathing to be humble. You don't have to walk around with your head down to be humble. You don't have to use self-defeating talk to be humble.
You just need to realize that no matter how great you are, you're no better than anybody else. |
as an addition to your excellent post, David D talks about a neurotic tendency called blind self-indulgent humility. This describes people who go around secretly looking for validation, about their good works, and their spirituality, when in actuality alot of them secretly think they are better than others. This is the type of person that thinks its a virtue to endure being treated like crap, and producing crappy results, as some form of higher consciousness. Steve describes this type in self-help junkie. all knowledge, no results. But instead of working on getting results, they brag they are too humble to focus on material things (ironically alot have no problem with living off welfare or other peoples charity)