To know yourself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility.*
Brother Dave

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.**
Jesus of Nazareth

Who is the most humble person in the world?

No-one knows, but they must be having
a whale of a time,
The grandest of adventures.

I come to this place at the beginning of the day
to calm and quiet my soul,
To meet with larger thoughts from
greater lives –
Not to become more like them or
do what they do,
But to become more who I am
and do what I must do:
Sooner or later we must distinguish between
what we are not and what we are.
We must accept the fact that we are not
what we would like to be.
We must cast of our false, exterior self
like the cheap and shiny garment it is … .
We must find our real self,
in all its elemental poverty,
but also in it great and
very simple dignity … .*

*Ian Morgan Cron’s The Road Back to You;
**Matthew 5:5;
^Thomas Merton from Ian Morgan Cron’s The Road Back to You.