Pride and humility - finding the right balance
Disciples must find the right balance between pride and excessive humility. They should not be completely self-effaced on the pretext of humility, or they will end up becoming idiotic and stupid. But neither should they be overly conceited on the pretext that they are following a spiritual teaching, for then they will become simply ridiculous. It is most difficult to strike the right balance. Even in the initiate schools of the past, very few disciples were able to avoid giving way to pride or excessive humility – which is often nothing but pride in disguise! So be careful not to make the same mistakes. You must know how to be dressed like a king while remaining a humble servant.Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov was a Bulgarian philosopher, pedagogue, mystic, and esotericism. A leading 20th-century teacher of Western Esotericism in Europe, he was a disciple of Peter Deunov, the founder of the Universal White Brotherhood. | |
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i keep forgetting this is here. repentance is a key to public communion, I'm using it religiously. You cannot partake of COMMUNION unless you have publicly repented. This is why books are not 160 characters ;^ }> if so we'd all be philosopher's in unison. Singing hymns of praise. Oh wait, we used to hunh?
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