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Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
-- Henry David Thoreau
 

 

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Humble yourself

Humble yourself in the face of life and its ancient roots. Immerse your thoughts in respect for the vastness of living energy you cannot understand but you know is there.

Your thoughts, actions and observations have grown in sophistication over time, and that is great. Yet they pale in comparison to the magnificent reality of all existence across all of time.

Say what you know to be true, act in ways you know to be right and effective. But don’t suffer from the delusion that you have all the answers, or ever will.

See that humility is not a resignation but rather an acceptance that liberates you from pettiness. Humility enables your participation at a fundamental level with what is true, with what is real.

From humility flows the gratitude with which you access and transform abundance into specific, useful value. Humility inspires kindness, deepens love, shields you from the agony of resentment.

Enjoy the peace and employ the power of humility. Celebrate and make good use of the greatness within you, while fully respecting all that is beyond you.

— Ralph Marston

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