What do you do to humble yourselves?

Question

Please share an experience that you have had to humble yourselves.
Quote by John Gardner " An excelent plumber is far more admireable than an incompatant philosopher the society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipe or its theories will hold water."

Answer 1

I listen while my teenager talks to me about drugs, sex or violence. Geez! Sometimes it's amazing how much we think we know and how little we do know.

Answer 2

I enter ANY library and am immediately humbled by the amount of books, ideas, authors, writings which I will never be familiar with... and I'm quite certain there is a section on plumbing in there somewhere- and of that field I know absolutely nothing. Therefore it would probably be one of the first fields to cause an intellectual genuflect of sorts.

Answer 3

I can't take all the credit for the work I do with-out acknowledging the team I work with. My boss thinks that anyone who hasn't got a degree isn't worth acknowledging, yet these are the very people, who help put her where she is today.

Maori proverb: Ehara taku toa I toa takitahi, engari he toa taku tini.

My strength is not from myself alone, but from the strength of others.

Answer 4

I was in a High School play, I had the lead role in "The Odd Couple" (I was Oscar). Our night's performance was going quite well, but I noticed that "Felix" had well, wet himself...was hesitant about coming on to the stage...so I improvised quickly..."Dammitt Felix! Did you spill that beer I had in the fridge all over yourself!!?" He chimed right in, "Well Oscar...if you wouldn't leave an open one right next to my sauce, this would not happen!!" He walked in, and the audience went wild. It was great.

Answer 5

My personal belief keeps me humble 24/7.

Answer 6

BOW down to your priest, parents or elders , and do not give shake hands or hugs.. every time you come out of home, office or church and In to any of them or all..

You may think this is idiocy. but this is what is practices in Zen Monasteries to learn humbleness..

Answer 7

You do what is best for you and your baby, not what anyone else thinks or says. I think you already have made up your mind. Do what you feel is right, it is your body and your baby. While it is best for the baby to have breast milk, sometimes that does not always work for the mother. Good Luck, and I agree you or anyone else should not be judged, that is silly. :)

Answer 8

I pray with ashes and sack cloth and I keep the laws of peace.

Probably not what you wanted to hear - but; the truth as to what helps me.

Peace;

Aintmyfault
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Answer 9

I find that looking in a mirror is a pretty humbling experience.

"He that exalteth himself shall be abased and he tht humbleth himself shall be exalted."

---------Jesus

Answer 10

True humility is thinking about others more than yourself. It is not thinking too highly about yourself. It is being realistic. It is not taking yourself too seriously.