A Quote by Bhakti Tirtha Swami
Humility does not mean to think yourself less, but to less think of yourself.
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Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?
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It is not humility to underrate yourself. Humility is to think of yourself as God thinks of you. It is to feel that if we have talents God has given them to us. And let it be seen that, like freight in a vessel, they tend to sink us low. The more we have, the lower we ought to lie.
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.
People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.
