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Humility Quotes by Frederick Lenz

74 Humility quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Humility is described as doing great work without seeking fame, sharing more with others, and finding happiness in modesty. The quotes contrast humility with ego’s drive for fame, note its power to change, and point to Gandhi as an example of humble action.

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The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts.

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Without humility, all spiritual progress stops.

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It's an exciting adventure to give those things that you've always held onto.

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If you have humility you are halfway to God-realization.

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Humility is the time that you spend in love with existence.

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You stop growing when you stop listening.

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Humility means you're willing to give someone a bigger slice of the pie.

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Don't stand out. Be in a room and remain unnoticed.

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Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental…

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You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.

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Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility.

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Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.

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The fact that you see a manifold world with different times, places and conditions -this exists only because of a lack of…

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Let someone else take your place in line, Let someone else be first. Let someone else achieve realization before you.

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You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.

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I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.

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Only a humble person can come to know God because the humble person can recognize that there is something more powerful, more…

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Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice…

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Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself.…

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Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions…

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Practice humility constantly. Whenever you start to think well of yourself, push those thoughts aside. Whenever you think ill of yourself, push…

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In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops,…

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I am humility, nothing more and nothing less. I am one blade of grass in a sea of grass. I am one…

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Someone else would come, another self that was a little more refined, that had a little more purity, a little more humility,…

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If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma.

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Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego.

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Humility is the conscious awareness and acceptance of eternity as your body.

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Humility means that you have the courage to accept that you are eternity itself.

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Your life is pure joy, pure ecstasy, when you live in humility.

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People who are humble don't talk too much; they listen.

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When you admire others, you become one with them and the world loves you.

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Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.

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Without humility you can't love. Love means looking beyond the self to the other.

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The only way you will advance spiritually is through humility.

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Meditation is humility - the absence of thought, doubt, and ego.

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When there's nothing but humility, there's nothing but spiritual oneness.

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The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level…

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We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves.

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It's very easy for us to be humble when no one else is around. There is no reason for us to demonstrate…

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Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for…

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