Humility isn’t thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself less. Rick Warren
Humility isn’t thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself as part of the Infinite MORE. Christina Brittain
Okay, Life existed WAY before me, and will go on INFINITELY after my blip on the movie screen comes and goes. But the same Life that made the Universe is what actually ANIMATES my blip. When it comes down to it, it’s Life that is living us. Showing up as all these forms. Everything from galaxies to amoebas. It’s all powered by whatever it is that organizes all this. Whatever it is that knows how to give birth to universes, and beat hearts, and tell a bunch of cells how to turn into a human. Or turn into who knows what amazing form on some other planet in some other solar system.
I’m a blip in that always more, never ending, unstoppable river of forms coming into being and passing out of being. In that sense, my story, my troubles, my concerns, my preferences and my ideas about who I am are hard to take seriously. This little human called Christina has this box of thoughts that she takes seriously and thinks is real.
The more I look from this angle, the less I obsess about my personal story. I give my attention far less to details I thought were important, and far more to that Intelligent Energy that is living me. I think less about myself. And I am free to think about and feel the MORE of what I am.
Ironically, when I step out of my limited ideas of me and into curiosity about my true identity as Life Force Itself, that’s when I feel such natural awe and reverence for this unique me. Even this limited me. I feel love and respect for all of her unique story, preferences, opinions, “flaws,” and precious humanness. The more I think of the MORE of me, the sweeter and lighter are my thoughts about this wonder that is a Christina.
I am humbled to be aware that I am only an expression of the never-ending Creation, which is the real life. Yet also humbled and aware that I am also a miraculous, one-of-a-kind expression. I am simultaneously in awe of the Life that animates me, AND the specialness of the form that I am privileged to be.
Personal story can be whatever it is, and yet it’s suddenly opened up and connected to the Big, Eternal Story. I am so tiny. And I am so sacred. I am completely unique. And I am never, ever separate or alone.
I’m with you, my friends. We’re all in this together. We are the unique ALL’s, together.
