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Humility is one of Mankind's most-loved personality traits.
Social groups, from cultures to religions
preach the importance of Humility.
It is believed, in the Human Race,
that to be humble is to be good.
This is important, because,
people who are 'good' are rewarded
whereas people who are seen as 'bad', are punished.
Humility is defined as:
"A modest or low view of one's own importance."
Modesty is defined as:
"The quality of not being too proud or confident "
"about yourself or your abilities."
ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!!
If you need to, go ahead and rewind this recording.
Look at those two definitions
and try to come up with a reason
that any of those things is beneficial.
Humility is not our natural state.
Children are born inherently feeling their own importance.
Children, who are naturally self-loving
and who naturally take pride in themselves,
must be *educated* into humility.
And this 'education' into humility
is an emotionally barbaric practice.
It's like the emotional version of Chinese foot-binding.
How is a child educated into humility, you ask?
They are shamed for being proud of themselves.
They are shamed for having wants and needs
if they conflict with other people's wants and needs.
they are told things like:
'The World doesn't revolve around you',
and 'Who do you think you are?!'
Their self esteem must be corroded
in order to become humble.
Besides that,
humility is in direct conflict
with one of the six basic Human Needs.
That particular Human Need is Significance.
We need significance,
we don't *want* significance.
So, in order for somebody to become humble,
they have to deny one of their most basic needs.
People who lack the primary need of Significance
live in a state of covert self-hatred.
They live unhappy lives -
*if* they continue living at all.
Because people who lack significance
are in fact, people who demonstrate
some of the highest risk for suicide.
So why are we so afraid of this as a species?
It's because we don't understand
that it's possible to feel our own importance
without simultaneously feeling 'more' or 'less' important
than other people.
We think that feeling important creates problems for society.
This is where humility begins ...
In the first few years of life,
a child's needs are met entirely by their parents.
This arrangement is an arrangement
which the child becomes acclimatized to.
He's used to it.
But once the child turns 2,
and is now able to go get their own juice-bottle
or do things for themselves more,
they're still acclimated to that particular arrangement
where 'Mom does everything for me'.
So at a certain point,
the child does what it has always done -
it asks for the parent to meet its needs.
Now this time,
because the parent knows that the kid can do it for themselves,
the parent has an emotional reaction to that request.
The parent feels, suddenly,
as if the child has become entitled or self-important.
The parent believes that the child thinks
that what the child wants is more important
than what the parent wants.
How does a parent respond
when they feels as if their child
feels like their importance is higher
than the parent's importance?
They react by shaming.
This is the first point in a child's life
that they are shamed for feeling important.
This is the point at which the parent
switches their behavior towards the child
from the aspect of 'I'm going to provide for you'
by 'Why are you requiring so much from me?!"
Suddenly the child doesn't understand why its level of importance
is being so downgraded.
Its confused as to why it is being
approached with this kind of attitude.
The child starts to think:
'Maybe there really is something wrong with me...'
This, is what it takes,
to create an attitude of 'humility' within a person.
Years of humbling creates a humble adult.
Well done - but at what cost?
We have raised the epitome of a self-defeating person.
We now have an adult with an internal conflict
who will probably fit into society quite well
and who will definitely not affect others
but who will maintain emotionally-abusive relationships,
who will accomplish a fraction of what they truly wish
to accomplish in their lives.
But, yes, you can be sure that everyone will like them.
Everyone will treasure how kind and humble they are ...
Humility serves three kinds of people:
- other people who want to maintain power,
and who want to remain in positions of higher importance
than other people.
- those who would rather have you be modest about yourself,
so that they don't have to feel bad about their shortcomings,
- and those who believe that this is the only way to ensure
that keeping everyone in a place of lowered self-importance
maintains social order.
And here we have the true origin of Humility -
... Religion and Social Order.
If I want other people to behave in a way
that allows me to maintain
my level of importance and my power,
what should I do?
I should convince them of their unimportance
and teach them that only way to be good, and therefore, loved,
is to not be too confident about themselves or their abilities.
I need to punish them if they act self-important
or proud about themselves.
And lastly,
I need to scare them that a punishment awaits those
who think highly of themselves,
after this life is over.
Humility is not a virtue -
it's a beautiful, but thin, sparkling 'sugar-coat' for Servility.
What is Servility?
Servility is the excessive willingness to serve or please others.
What does 'excessive' mean?
It means that the person who is servile in nature
is a self-sacrificer.
Servility serves those who wish to maintain
positions of higher importance than you.
Servility maintains social order.
Servility serves the Government
and it serves Religious Institutions.
Servility serves parents who wish to maintain
the seat of power over the household.
Servility serves those
who do not feel capable of feeling good about themselves.
People who want you to behave in a way that
makes it easy for them to feel good about themselves
without having to do the work on their own
self-defeating tendencies.
Universal Truth time:
Every single atom of this Universe
is a projection, and an extension, and a part of,
God Consciousness.
That means that You
are a a projection, an extension, and a part of,
God Consciousness.
You're indivisible from God.
Do you think that God, Itself, would be humble?
Do think that It would downgrade Its own value,
or lower Its importance?
Do you think that It would not take note
of Its capabilities?
NO!
Then, why should you?
Ready for us to go deeper?
If you are an extension of God Itself,
then Humility is the true blasphemy.
Any act,
that is not self-loving and self-celebratory,
is blasphemy.
What is Importance?
"Importance is the state, or fact of being "
"of great significance or value."
Importance has nothing to do with Comparison.
Importance doesn't have anything to do
with being more or less valuable
or significant than anything else.
Are you not important?
Do you not have significance or value?
Why not be confident in yourself and your abilities?
Why not be proud of yourself?
You have been taught that being confident in yourself
and your abilities hurts people - but it doesn't.
It only hurts you
when you do not value yourself and your abilities.
Humility will keep you small forever.
It means that you will half of the life
you came here to live,
*if* you are lucky ...
The truth is you have more significance and more value
than you will ever come to know.
The truth is you are like - an angle of colored-glass -
in a stained-glass painting -
the picture would not be complete without you.
There is not another point of perspective in this Universe
that is like you,
nor has there ever been,
and nor will there ever be.
The Universe depends on you for its own Expansion.
The Universe depends on you to know Itself.
To say that you are a Child of God is an understatement
because you are indivisible from God.
And how important are your children, to you?
Is it possible that you could be just as important,
to the Universe Itself?
Strike 'Humility' from the record -
it never did anyone a crumb of good.
All it ever did was to keep you from yourself,
and especially to keep you from knowing and experiencing
your own Divinity.
Allow yourself to take notice of your own abilities.
Allow yourself to develop confidence in yourself.
Watch what happens when you start to feel better about yourself.
Watch what happens when you start
to take note of, express ...
... and really celebrate ... your own abilities
and your own accomplishments,
and the beauty of that which you are.
Watch what happens when you allow yourself
to truly feel your own importance.
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I have a little challenge for you today:
In the Comments Section below this video,
I want you to post about your abilities.
Instead of remaining humble,
I want you to express what you're good at -
to the world.
I want you to express ... your own importance ...
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