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Humility is asserting your needs and guarding your serenity. It is being. It’s just being. Being and letting be.
Writing with humility—with your whole, earthen self and for other earthen selves—is writing with empathy. It’s writing with and toward uncertainty and curiosity. It’s not lecturing, preening, or self-justifying. It’s resisting the... See more
Writing with humility—with your whole, earthen self and for other earthen selves—is writing with empathy. It’s writing with and toward uncertainty and curiosity. It’s not lecturing, preening, or self-justifying. It’s resisting the... See more
Anna Sproul-Latimer • On arrogance and humility in the rock tumbler of our publishing life
Humbling Only Begun
David Mathis • The Christmas We Didn't Expect
Humility is a weight off the shoulders. It feels freeing to drop the self sufficiency and having to know it all. To be judged, and know your place before God allows endurance without despair, pride, anger and so on.
but learning demands a temporary surrender of pride. you can’t learn while protecting your image at the same time. you have to allow yourself to sound clumsy, to look unpolished, to admit you’re not there yet. it feels like loss in the moment — loss of dignity, loss of certainty — but it’s really the ground clearing itself so that something else... See more
how to live with the discomfort of learning (instead of running from it)
The dignity of “not being sure”
I regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and always from periods of intense humility (i.e. your ego finally relenting)
Daniel Kazandjiansubstack.comHumbly Test