A quote from Krishnamurti arrived in my email in-tray this morning: “Humility is not to be acquired or cultivated. Only the vain cultivate humility”. I’ve often wondered about humility, and why anyone would want to search for it. Is it even possible to achieve humility without also being afflicted by the sin of pride? Though asking people to do impossible things is a familiar biblical trope, insisting on humility is incoherent (and asking people to do the impossible is, of course, morally indefensible).
Licenced today: a street in Watchet, Somerset…
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