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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>

==Common Mistakes==

~~''What is the right and the wrong way of being humble?''~~

~~It is very simple, when~~ When people are told "be humble", they think immediately of "being humble before other men" and that humility is wrong. True humility is humility before the Divine, that is, a precise, exact, living sense that one is nothing, one can do nothing, understand nothing without the Divine, that even if one is exceptionally intelligent and capable, this is nothing in comparison with the divine Consciousness, and this sense one must always keep, because then one always has the true attitude of receptivity—a humble receptivity that does not put personal pretensions in opposition to the Divine.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/13-may-1953#p10</ref>

A spiritual humility within is very necessary, but I do not think an outward humility is very advisable (absence of pride or arrogance or vanity is indispensable of course in one's outer dealings with others)—it often creates pride, becomes formal or becomes ineffective after a time. I have seen people doing it to cure their pride, but I have not found it producing a lasting result. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/morality-and-yoga#p28</ref>

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