Posted by Declan on July 26, 2006, at 14:23:58
In reply to Self esteem? And humility..., posted by Racer on July 20, 2006, at 0:12:26
I don't know how well common sense and ratioality work in the mind. TS Eliot was good on humility. You know East Coker, from "Four Quartets"? Not to everyone's taste, I guess. He talks a lot about humility and surrender. The less appealing parts (Little Gidding) suggest that love is the cause of our suffering, but I take that as him wanting to be difficult, so I'm thinking that instead of things that make sense like graphs and continuums between narcissism and humility it might work rather differently, like all the spiritual people say....except that you lose your life you will not find it, that sort of thing.
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