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… you need to be humble not only when you have nothing substantial or divine in you but even when you are on the path of transformation. Paradoxical though it may sound, the Divine who is absolutely perfect is at the same time absolutely humble—humble as nothing else can ever be. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/true-humility-supramental-plasticity-spiritual-rebirth#p1</ref>

How beautiful is this humble role of servant, the role of all who have been revealers and heralds of the God who is within all, of the Divine Love that animates all things....

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/02/the-supreme-discovery#p25</ref>

Whatever is your personal value or even your individual realisation, the first quality required in yoga is humility. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/humility-and-modesty#p15</ref>

Of course you can [do Yoga without being great]—there is no need of being great. On the contrary humility is the first necessity, for one who has ego and pride cannot realise the Highest. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/human-greatness#p9</ref>

It is to have a certain inner humility which makes you aware of your helplessness without the Grace, that truly, without it you are incomplete and powerless. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/15-september-1954#p30</ref>

To receive the divine grace, not only must one have a great aspiration, but also a sincere humility and an absolute trust.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/17-october-1960-1#p6</ref>

A true and sincere humility is our safeguard―it is the surest way to the indispensable dissolution of the ego. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/humility-and-modesty#p16</ref>

If there is one fundamental necessity, it is humility. To be humble. Not humble as it is normally understood, such as merely saying, 'I am so small, I'm nothing at all'—no, something else ... Because the pitfalls are innumerable, and the further you progress in yoga, the more subtle they become, and the more the ego masks itself behind marvelous and saintly appearances. So when somebody says, 'I no longer want to rely on anything but Him. I want to close my eyes and rest in Him alone,' this comfortable 'Him,' which is exactly what you want him to be, is the ego—or a formidable Asura, or a Titan (depending on each one's capacity). They're all over the earth, the earth is their domain. So the first thing to do is to pocket your ego—not preserve it, but get rid of it as soon as possible!

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/may-16-1960#p1</ref>

Do not be over-eager for experience,—for experiences you can always get, having once broken the barrier between the physical mind and the subtle planes. What you have to aspire for most is the improved quality of the recipient consciousness in you—discrimination in the mind, the unattached impersonal Witness look on all that goes on in you and around you, purity in the vital, calm equanimity, enduring patience, absence of pride and the sense of greatness—and more especially, the development of the psychic being in you—surrender, self-giving, psychic humility, devotion. It is a consciousness made up of these things, cast in this mould that can bear without breaking, stumbling or deviation into error the rush of lights, powers and experiences from the supraphysical planes. An entire perfection in these respects is hardly possible until the whole nature from the highest mind to the subconscient physical is made one in the light that is greater than Mind; but a sufficient foundation and a consciousness always self-observant, vigilant and growing in these things is indispensable—for perfect purification is the basis of the perfect siddhi. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p14</ref>

It is necessary to lay stress on three things—

These three categories of tests are: those conducted by the forces of Nature, those conducted by the spiritual and divine forces, and those conducted by the hostile forces. This latter category is the most deceptive in its appearance, and a constant state of vigilance, sincerity and humility is required so as not to be caught by surprise or unprepared. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/november-12-1957#p3</ref>

Humility and sincerity are the best safeguards. Without them each step is a danger; with them the victory is certain. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/humility-and-modesty#p17</ref>

[Humility is] the surest shield against all hostile attack. Indeed, in the human being it is always the door of pride at which the Adversary knocks, for it is this door which opens to let him enter. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/humility-and-modesty</ref>

The first indispensable condition to prepare ourselves to receive the new consciousness is a true and spontaneous humility which makes us feel deeply that we know nothing and are nothing in the face of the marvellous things we have to acquire.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/the-new-consciousness#p27</ref>

It is very unwise for anyone to claim prematurely to have possession of the supermind or even a taste of it. The claim is usually accompanied by an outburst of superegoism, some radical blunder of perception or a gross fall into wrong condition and wrong movement. A certain spiritual humility, a serious un-arrogant look at oneself and quiet perception of the imperfections of one's present nature and, instead of self-esteem and self-assertion, a sense of the necessity of exceeding one's present self, not from egoistic ambition, but from an urge towards the Divine would be, it seems to me, for this frail terrestrial and human composition far better conditions for proceeding towards its supramental change.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-supramental-transformation#p13</ref>

Humility, a perfect humility, is the condition for all realization. The mind is so cocksure. It thinks it knows everything, understands everything. And if ever it acts through idealism to serve a cause that appears noble to it, it becomes even more arrogant more intransigent, and it is almost impossible to make it see that there might be something still higher beyond its noble conceptions and its great altruistic or other ideals. Humility is the only remedy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/december-21-1957#p8</ref>

Ignorance always lacks humility—the more ignorant the mind, the more it judges and the more it revolts. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/13-march-1936#p2</ref>

It is only love that can understand and get at the secrets of the Divine Working. The mind, the physical mind especially, is incapable of seeing correctly and yet it always wants to judge. It is only a true, sincere humility in the mind, allowing the psychic to rule the being, that can save human beings from ignorance and obscurity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-mind#p40</ref>

The first thing you must do is to learn a little humility and to recognise that you know nothing—you read words, you read prayers, and you repeat the words, you copy the prayers, but you do not understand them; you mix up all these ideas and notions in a brain that is still like a child's, and then you have the illusion of understanding! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/15-november-1934#p4</ref>

You have answered the trustful welcome given to you by an arrogant and uncomprehending attitude, judging everything from the viewpoint of an ignorant and presumptuous morality which could only alienate from you the sympathy so spontaneously extended to you as to all those who come here in quest of the spiritual life. But in order to profit by one's stay here, a minimum of mental humility and generosity of soul is indispensable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/comfort-and-happiness#p6</ref>