Day 252 of wisdom
“Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.”
Swami Sivananda
Once, a job seeker was on his way to an interview, while waiting for a bus heading for his destination, an individual also trying to find his way stepped on his shoes, "look at this fool, don't you know I am going for an interview? And you stepped on me" he yelled at the individual. Hurriedly the individual bent down to clean the stained shoes, "get out" he added. Upon arrival of a bus, everyone hurried into the bus to occupy a seat, and there was only one seat left on the bus for the job seeker to seat, and it was beside the man who had earlier stepped on his shoes."I can't sit beside this fool" he said, and he decided to wait for the next bus.
The next bus arrived, and he got to the interview venue, he asked to be directed to the interview room, and got there, upon entering the interview room he discovered the "fool" he had rashly spoken to was the interviewer. "You cannot work with a fool, I am sure" the man said. He had obviously lost the job before he even got the opportunity to be interviewed, just for his proud, and unruly character. Humility is the ladder that leads to exaltation, one who humbles himself will be lifted by others, but the one who exalts himself will be debased.
An humble man is not a coward, and a meek person is not a weak person, they are people who possess great spiritual powers capable of opening doors that pride, and arrogance cannot open. Life is equal, all men are created equal, but some men have better privileges. Those who are privileged must not take unjust, and undue advantage of the unprivileged, rather they must seek to raise them to heights of privilege. Michel de Montaigne once said "On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom." however big you are in the world, you cannot but do things that are common to every man, even to the poorest in the world.
Practice humility, it exalts; practice meekness, it gladden, and heals the heart. In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, he said, "A great man is always willing to be little." because he knows the way up is down; he knows that anything that goes up, comes down, but whatever grows up, stays up, and if you must grow up, you must first go down, and be buried into obscurity. Humility and meekness are indeed great powers, use them to your advantage.
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