"When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all."

Humility, Existence, Self, Realization

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"When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all."

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"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self."

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"A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything knows how little he knows."

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"I don't know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman - your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don't know what to make of it."

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"It's easy to be humble when your life's prosper.Nothing could be denigrated when life's so poor."

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"We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of ego and habit."

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"If you feel the need to laugh at people's weaknesses, laugh at yours first."

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"Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting."

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"The important place held by Jesus among the world's six hundred million Moslems... and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender to God as the means of salvation, thus makes it comparatively easy for a Moslem to address himself to Christians: the sympathy and the history are already there."

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"When we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief."

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"Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots."

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"SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence."

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"Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?"

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"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."

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