Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.
Dag HammarskjoldHumility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.
Dag HammarskjoldIf even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
Dag HammarskjoldHumility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.
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