One of its essential aspects, as we have seen, is peacefully accepting our weakness and inner poverty.Ī great little treatise on the Little Way based on the writings of St. I think a good definition of humility may be this: being in the right relation to ourselves, which enables us to be in the right relation to God and to other people relating to ourselves according to the truth of what and how we are. First of all, recognizing it, because sometimes we don’t want to face it, but above all accepting it! Those who are humble and accept their littleness don’t get discouraged because they put their trust in God and not in themselves.īeing humble means consenting to our inner poverty. The two main signs of pride are despising others and getting discouraged. The final sentence is also very important for explaining what “being little” means: “It means not being discouraged by our faults, because children often fall over, but they are so little they don’t hurt themselves badly.” No apology was necessary, but it was nice to know the genesis. He apologizes this book is based on a series of talks he did and that he spent little time cleaning it up.
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