The other day my class was discussing George Herbert’s Humilitie, a poetic dream-vision in which the virtues, personified as court officials, accept “tokens of submission” from beasts and fowls who ...

The default psychological setting for human beings is an unavoidable self-centeredness. We each stand at the center of our own thoughts, feelings and needs, and thus experience them in a way that we ...

Whatever happened to humility? And why should we care? Humility helps us see the common good. Take masking during the pandemic: all the messaging was, “Wear a mask to protect others.” But do we care ...

If you want to assess the state of humility among politicians today, just think about how often you hear leaders admit that they are wrong and then change course. This is how Dr. David J. Bobb of ...

What is humility? It’s not humiliation, nor groveling, nor subordination. It manifests in truthful self-perception, honest self-other relations and is about deep connection to others. In a recent ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. There is one quality that, it seems to us, undergirds all the other qualities which we explored in our ...

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I cannot understand how there could be humility without love or love without humility. Teresa of Avila (1583/2017 CE), Chap. 16, no. 2, p. 94 As Teresa of Avila’s (1515-1582) epigraph implies, ...

In the chest-thumping, celebrity-obsessed, wanna-be-an-idol 21st century, the virtue of humility might seem as quaint as communication via smoke signals from a chimney pot. Humility suggests meekness, ...