Category Archives: Sayings

Humility

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IMG_20150928_214439_burst_01 You see the source of this quote from this photograph.  It is definitely a contradiction to seek humility as a source of power.  See number six below.

IMG_20150928_214801 Here are six of the fifteen quotes.

Reflection on these and other quotes is helpful.  When one succeeds in internalizing humility,  probably move in circles with all people.  This may be one of  Pope Francis’s qualities, which allows him to move with ease from talking to heads of state to serving lunch at the Catholic Charities to the poor.  He definitly has humility.  It shows in how he asks the people to pray for him, as he prays for the people.

It was a new insight for me from the pope, that if one is not humble, one runs the risk of being  a hypocrite, which is saying one thing, and doing another.  I am going to think a lot more about humility, and its implications.

Three Kinds Of Personal Skills To Know About Oneself

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DSC03586 In the July 13, 2014 issue of The Galveston County Daily News was this article on job seeking by Patricia Rivera of CTW Features.

DSC03584  She begins the article with a comment that one is wise to know oneself, and proceeds to say that before a job interview  one should assess these kinds of skills in oneself, and tell the interviewer about those skill you have that he will wants to have in the position for which you are interviewing.

Work is part of life, and one should know what these are anyway.  This is all part of what I am examining in myself right now.    We should know and communicate our:

  1. Knowledge we gained through experience and education.   I have a BA, an MA,  numerous additional courses.
  2. Portable and general and transferable skills.  I can teach, break things down into their elements, and see the  big pictures.   I know how to learn, and keep learning.
  3. Unique personal qualities.  I am patient in carrying out tasks, thorough, and want to do a good job.  I am self-motivated.  I want to help mankind become a sustainable entity on the face of the earth.

To perform this exercise is right in line with the soul work I am taking on right now.  These tasks can be summed up by these two sayings:

  1. Know thyself (Socrates).
  2. To thine own self be true (Shakespeare, Hamlet)