Real Humility

Real humility, or being humble, isn’t about pleasing others

or forgetting oneself,

not even necessarily about staying agreeably inconspicuous.

It is about standing firm in one’s own identity in the face

of every diversion, debate, digression, or detractor, undeterred

and staying the course – while appreciating others’ perspectives

and craving no one’s approval or recognition or acknowledgement

(and accepting the same graciously if it comes)...

It is about asserting without ego or conceding without resentment,

it is about sovereign command of breath and mind,

about simplicity or non-complexity.

Neither self-hostile nor self-doubting nor self-sabotaging,

it can afford to be wrong and own up to it.

It is not helper-syndrome. 

Grasping this, one forgets oneself in the reality of God
and serves others.

One who demonstrates this humility can be emulated,

as - according to the Beatitudes,

such will inherit the earth.