A Quote by Thomas Keating

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Thomas Keating

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Thomas Keating
American - Priest
Born: March 7, 1923

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Peter Kreeft

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

C. S. Lewis

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

C. S. Lewis

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

Saint Augustine

Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.

John Climacus

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 Hammarskjold

Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.

Erwin McManus

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Peter Kreeft

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

Ben Okri

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Eckhart Tolle

Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.

Arthur Dobrin

The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and sin, but there IS a connection: forgetfulness means unawareness, unconsciousness.

Rajneesh

A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.

Frederick Lenz

Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.

Adrienne Monnier

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