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But that [pride of the ego] is the case with all human beings. All the action is shot through with ego, acts, feelings, thoughts, everything, big or small, good or bad. Even humility and what is called altruism is with most people only a form of ego. It does not depend on having something to be proud of. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/ego-and-its-forms#p3</ref>

~~...and then there~~ There are people who have what may be called a warped and excessive modesty or humility and who tell themselves, "Surely the Divine has thrown me out, I am good for nothing, He can do nothing with me, the only thing for me is to give up the game, for He finds me unworthy of Him!" <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/25-january-1956#p56</ref>

=Why is Humility Important?=

Of course one 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 one aware of the helplessness without the Grace, that truly, without it one is incomplete and powerless~~. ..~~.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/15-september-1954#p30</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>

~~… no~~ No ambition, no vanity, no pride. A sincere self-giving, a sincere humility, and one is sheltered from all danger...this is what I call being greater than one's experience.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/22-august-1956#p26</ref>

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