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“Kundalini is generated through cultivating humility, purity, through meditation, selfless giving, and by studying with an advanced teacher on a personal level.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still lack one thing. Become a beggar. This is what you still lack. Learn how to beg. This isn’t easy to understand. To learn how to beg. To learn how to receive with humility.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.”

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Author:Kedar Joshi

“The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“One way of getting along with people is the ability to give in. Strength of character means the ability to give in to others from motives of love, kindness, and humility, and to do so gracefully, when no sin is involved. It also means the ability to stand on principle, and not to give in, when sin is involved.”

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Author:Lawrence G. Lovasik

“The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.”

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Book:The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

“There is no doubt that God will never be wanting to us, provided that He finds in us that humility which makes us worthy of His gifts, the desire of possessing them, and the promptitude to co-operate industriously with the graces He gives us.”

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Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give you with the utmost humility and simplicity. For God, Who has an infinite love for obedience, frequently renders profitable the counsels we take from others, but especially from those who are the guides of our souls.”

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Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Humility means you're willing to give someone a bigger slice of the pie.”

Giving Mean Humility Willing Buddhism Bigger Pie

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Humility can give everything to God. Everything comes from the source, everything returns to the source.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Humility means realizing that it's fun to give everything away, particularly the things that you are most attached to.”

Giving Mean Fun Realizing Humility Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's an exciting adventure to give those things that you've always held onto.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz