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Humility and Spiritual Growth

9/29/2016

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A wheat plant grows straight up. Only when it becomes ripe and is full of nutrients does its position change. It bends and bows down when it becomes mature. Spiritual maturity is also like that. When we don't know any better, we may have a little bit of accomplishment and think we are a big deal. We stand in arrogance and think others owe us something, and we think we can go around and act like we're different from everybody else. We say, why haven't you bowed down to me? As far as spiritual growth is concerned, it is useless. But if we become wise and we embrace our humility, we become willing to bow down to others, to learn from others, to let others be our teachers, to remove our bloated sense of self-importance.

Good looks, a beautiful lover, great fame, and mountains of money are some of the things in our material existence that we may mistake as justifications for arrogance. It is born of the ego and it feeds the ego, so unless we get out of the vicious cycle of depending on our ego, we will spend our entire life chasing after what is outside. The antidote to this is humility. Humility they say is not to think less of ourselves, but to think of ourselves less. It means we are less concerned about what others think of us and what accomplishments it may appear we have achieved, and we think more of how we can serve others.
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