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Getting Centered |
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Question: How can a person be humble and also have a high self esteem? Isn't having a high opinion of yourself like having pride? Isn't pride something we are supposed to avoid if we want to be a good person? Answer: To me, being humble is having a sense of your own self worth, knowing that you don't need to earn it or be better than anyone else. Being humble is simply knowing your worth is based on being human, rather than being based on what you can do or what others think of you. Having a high self esteem is pretty much the same thing. Having an inner knowing that you hold yourself in high esteem. You respect yourself. Being proud, in the more negative sense of this word, usually implies an over exaggeration of who you are. Many times when a person is acting in a way that others may interpret as egotistic, proud or arrogant, we can usually recognize this as a cover-up for that person's deeper feelings of low self esteem. In other words, when people appear to be arrogant, we can be on the look out for deeper feelings of worthlessness.
This idea is a fundamental concept of living in integrity. Those of you who have sessions with me, have heard me say time and time again that everything we do and everything we are boils down to just one basic concept:
Growing and maturing is not so much about learning to be different but about allowing my God Self to show up while I'm still in human form. That's why we are here on this Earth. Imagine you are like a Tootsie Roll Pop. Your body is like the candy on the outside, and your Soul or God Self is like the chocolate on the inside. Doesn't it make sense that if we are God/Goddesses in the center, like a Tootsie Roll Pop, then as we become more and more aware of this goodness within us, wouldn't we love ourselves more and more? That means we would have less and less reason to pretend we are wonderful. Why pretend when we can actually BE wonderful. I think the more we allow our candy shells to melt away, the more others will see our chocolate! Neither is good or bad. Both are wonderful parts that make up the whole of who we are. Allowing our goodness to shine is not only a gift to others but to ourselves. Dare to shine your Light. Simply choose to be the best of who you are, and then choose to have the courage to know your are beautiful. |
So, should we avoid pridefulness? Based on what I've just written it would make sense to me to try to stay honest with myself and with those around me. That includes knowing my strengths and my challenges. Being aware of my talents as well as my weaker points.|
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