There is no humility in pretending you are worthless. Humility is not an obsession over failure. Humility is a sensitivity to that which lies beyond.
Humility is when you recognize that, yes, you have talents, you have something to contribute to the world, you have a certain stature and authority—and yet all that has a larger context.
Humility means to reframe the meaning of your existence within that larger whole.
From where, after all, do all these talents and achievements come? They were granted you from Above so you may fulfill the mission assigned you in this life.
“And so,” the humble person asks, “What have I done with the gifts endowed to me? Another person, certainly, would have achieved much more.”
Take pride—but not in the gifts placed in your hand. Take pride in what you do with it.
Yes, I’m humble enough to admit to myself and the other person and even the whole wide world that I’ve been badly mistaken, I’ve been stupid for thinking I was the only one who had all the answers. So there, I said it, I finally let it out for everyone to hear that I’m not perfect, I’m not even mediocre, I’m just me. The person who lives their life for their G d and hopes and prays that he hears my prayers everyday and continues to point me in the right direction, pick me up when I fall, even carry me when I can’t even walk. And of course that he continues on to fill up my basket with wisdom, knowledge, understanding, discernment, fortitude, charity, truthfulness, compassion and empathy and most of all to always make me humble before him and everyone else. I think that I’ve covered what humility is; because with him I can be something, but without him I’m nothing.