We talk of humbling’ experiences and we’re grateful for them.
Someone rises from a state of crushing defeat or trauma as in a competition they’ve trained all their lives for or a childhood of unspeakable abuse or a life-threatening disease. They have lived to tell the story.
We listen and mixed in with our admiration is the oft-stated feeling of being ‘humbled’. Usually, they are people who we feel have had far less than we have had in terms of physical, material or emotional provisions and this is probably a huge reason why we feel ‘humbled’.
There is a sense that, even with so little, they have accomplished so much. Even with so much against them, they have triumphed. Why haven’t we, with so much more, not accomplished anywhere near as much?
I have never felt a great need or desire to be humbled. But neither have I felt any reason to be proud.
When I feel most connected to Truth, to that All-Knowing Presence, I am aware that there is a kind of Mini-Me who ignorantly has been trying to run this whole show that it calls ‘My Life’. And I often smile and sometimes burst out laughing when I see how ridiculous and futile this is.
The Mini-Me is not who I truly am for so many reasons that we can arrive at through both reason and experience. But for me, the most important of these is that the Real Me is ALL-ENCOMPASSING. There is nothing outside it or separated from it and that includes Mini-Me.
It is this Real-Me within which (for want of a better expression) Peace, Joy, Love, Power, Freedom, Abundance and so on are experienced by Mini-Me. This is something we can experience in meditation.
In other words, all that Mini-Me ever wants is already what it/I am/have! Everything is available when Mini-Me allows itself to fall into Real Me (which is variously called Love, God, Truth, Infinite Intelligence, the Field etc).
In Truth, we are Powerful, Free, Limitless, Beginningless, Endless…
In Truth, we are Love, Peace, Joy, Freedom, Abundance…
Who or what then seeks to be humbled? And why?
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