Don’t Be Humble, Enjoy your Gifts and Have Humility

In many societies today, people are taught to be humble. It is when one person goes out to brag and parades around their ego that the egos of others begin to feel inferior. In an effort to save their own face, the inferior egos will “cut down” the successful ego by telling it to be humble and not brag about all its accomplishments.

Being humble actually reduces you. It doesn’t enhance you.

Life is meant to be a joyful experience, something to be celebrated and loved. We are all given our own unique qualities with which to play with in the world. We all have our own special characteristics which make us one of a kind and memorable. It’s what creates variety in the world.

Life in all its forms is meant to be expressed, not repressed.

Take a look at how flowers live. You never see them trying to hide themselves, cover themselves up, or be humble. No, they JOYOUSLY open up their petals and gleefully say to the world, “This is who I am! I am love! I am beauty! I am the stunning radiance of life itself!”

Notice that flowers are essentially saying, by their very presence, “I am wonderful. I am not claiming to be more wonderful than you, but I am wonderful.” There is no comparison here. No duality. No judgment. I am what I am! A flower radiating its essence in no way diminishes the glow of any other flower, nor does it limit how much another flower can express its beauty.

Now, a critical understanding here is that this not a statement of how “I” am special. It’s a display of what’s possible by consciousness. Rather than trying to take all the credit for how wonderful “you” are, look at your life and say to yourself, “Look at what’s possible by humanity. Look at what ANY of us can accomplish if we let go of resistance and open up to the possibilities. Look at the splendor of life. Look at the magnificence of infinite consciousness!”

This is called humility.

Humility has nothing to do with being humiliated. If you notice a negative connotation around the world humility, it’s because of an incorrect association with humiliation.

Humility is when you lovingly open yourself up to the world and show what’s possible by God. It’s not “you” being awesome. It’s God being awesome. “You” are merely the vessel to both observe what’s possible by consciousness and BE what’s possible by consciousness.

If you’re a great basketball player, for example, you can say, “Thank you God for giving me this gift of being a naturally talented basketball player! I’m going to take this gift and enjoy it totally. I’m going to share it with the world.”

Hiding your gifts from the world is really doing everyone a great disservice. If you bashfully close yourself off in order to not brag, you are not living up to your full potential. You’re not creating the grandest version of yourself. You’re withholding your own beauty from the world.

Sure, you take responsibility for your actions in the world. This is absolutely recommended. Credit, however, goes to God. You are merely a vessel for consciousness to not only know itself, but to experience itself.

So the trick is to have humility and thank God for everything in life, to live with appreciation and joy, and to enjoy the gifts you’ve developed in this lifetime alongside the rest of the world. Your purpose is to serve others with your unique gifts.

Let go of the desire to come from ego, and instead choose to come from the heart. Open yourself up and RADIATE your Self out into the world.

Give, Give, Give!

Love!

and Be.

Namaste.