Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Assessing your place in the cosmos (David Brooks)


   In the struggle against your own weakness, humility is the greatest virtue.  Humility is having an accurate assessment of your own nature and your own place in the cosmos.  Humility is awareness that you are an underdog in the struggle against your own weakness.  Humility is an awareness that your individual talents alone are inadequate to the tasks that have been assigned to you.  Humility reminds you that you are not the center of the universe, but you serve a larger order.

--David Brooks, The Road to Character

Image source:  The Milky Way as seen from McGregor Bay, Ontario, Canada (https://imgur.com/gallery/2zeViU5)

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