THE VALUE OF SPIRITUAL HUMILITY

WHEN SOCRATES TOLD THE ORACLE OF DELPHI, “I only know one thing, and that is that I know nothing,” she pronounced him the wisest man in Greece. If true wisdom is rooted in humility, then genuine spirituality is rooted in spiritual humility. Growing in a long-term committed relationship requires spiritual humility. Thinking we know a partner like the back of our hand sets us up to relate to them too readily with conditioned responses instead of curiosity and reverence. When conflict arises, lack of spiritual humility leads us to look for the speck in our partner’s eye instead of starting with the log in our own. Whenever I mistakenly believe I’ve finally mastered listening to my wife, for example, an inevitable tide of marital misunderstanding washes away that illusory sandcastle.…

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