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Kate
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Date Posted: 13:58:22 06/17/02 Mon
... is that I am blindsided by the most astonishing Truth from the most unexpected sources-- for example, Dag Hammarskjold, in Andrew Harvey's compilation, The Essential Gay Mystics:
"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.
To be nothing in the self-effacement of humility, yet, for the sake of the task, to embody ITS whole weight and importance in your bearing as the one who has been called to undertake it. To give to people, works, poetry, art, what the self can contribute, and to take, simply and freely, what belongs to it by reason of its identity. Praise and blame, the winds of success and adversity, blow over such a life without leaving a trace or upsetting its balance.
Toward this, so help me, God--"
(There isn't really anything to be added to such clarity, is there? Times like this, I hear all the sons and daughters of God shouting for joy.)
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