Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.
Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, and will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.
--Marianne Williamson
Image source 1: A man prays in Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shusha, Azerbaijan, after it was partially destroyed by shelling in October 2020, https://www.christianpost.com/voices/what-true-humility-looks-like.html
Image source 2: Robert Henderson Blyth's disturbing In the Image of Man (1947). You can find an analysis of this painting here: https://christian.art/daily-gospel-reading/matthew-5-38-42-2025/
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