I had to take a minute and decide where to post this. If you’ve been reading this blog you know I think the needs of addicts and the needs of non-addicts are identical. One of the experiences I never shared with people in 12 Step groups and the addiction recovery community as a whole was that addicts and alcoholics were different from other people.

The only difference I can come up with is addicts need detox. Non-addicts don’t have to go through withdrawal as a step in the change process. Other than that…? We can talk about that more if you like but right now I have something else on my mind.

Addict, no-addict, normal as the day is long, one thing holds true for all. The desire to know what the hell is going on. Where did we come from and what are we doing here? Does anyone know anybody who doesn’t, or hasn’t wondered about this?

I’ve met people who claimed not to be interested. I asked them why and they said they would find out when they died. I always wondered where they got that information. I realize it’s a fairly common belief. Someone said this same “We’ll know when we die” thing to me a few weeks ago. I told them there was no such thing as death. I haven’t heard back.

Lets see – we might agree on this: Everyone has wondered and some of those that wondered have accepted someone else’s explanation. Is that universally true?

So we’re all in the same boat and the addiction, or not, thing is just another temporary experience. After the detox deal we start looking for something to do….and…we…do something.

Here we go

I got an email the other day from someone suggesting I might want to watch a video they had on You Tube. I thought that was kind of interesting. Wasn’t spam or a mailer program. I guess someone took the time to look at what I have there, maybe they came here and looked around, and thought, “Hey, this is right up Wilson’s interest alley”.

The video was actually a recorded radio show. (no video) The guest speaker was Jay Weidner. He was talking about a people who were around before the Sumerian. He said they had some text from them and was telling the audience about it.

I’ve recently (this decade) become a fan of alternative archeology and I figure that one or more of these ancient writings tell the real story concerning the origin of people on earth.

What I find people doing with this, possibly accurate information, is the same thing people have done with all stories from past peoples – They add some interpretation. There is usually add some thing like, they did this, and they are going to do this, then we will…or a….so we should, and so on.

This is the part where I start to get antsy. I’ve never been okay with any – “This is the way it is, so…do this” – deal. However I got here. However I was created, appeared by cosmic chance or was genetically engineered, that was then. Plus – That was “Them”. Whatever was, was and whatever is, is. Thanks a bunch – I’ll decide what to do now.

The latest group to catch my interest is “The Light Workers”. Not being able to get a decent understanding as to the practice of the light workers I thought I’d look for some type of video. I found a video produced by Jay Weidner (the guy from the talk show).

At least we can get some idea of what a light worker is working for. We’ll see that they must be working towards attaining the ability to – what words – transform the body (DNA)? You can probably tell I don’t have a good grasp of the language here. I’ll refer you to the Video. The video starts out talking about global climate change – just let it play.

The Big Cycle from Doug Wilson on Vimeo.

Big Cycle part 2 from Doug Wilson on Vimeo.

The Big Cycle Part 3 from Doug Wilson on Vimeo.

Visit Vimeo for the remaining segments. If they’re not there now, they will be soon….

Learning

On the main website I’ve written several pages on learning. (The Societal Brain) I talked about the public education system and how the U.S. public education system has limited it’s curriculum so that it teaches people to become consumers. ( the history of education in the U.S. by John Taylor Gatto ), ( The Plan: Chemically Dumbing Down The Society )

There are extreme side affects to this plan, as shown in – ( The Disappearing Male: From Virility to Sterility ).

Learning, as it is today, is setting us up for more than just a dumber consumer. It is a catalyst for self destruction. The student is rarely made aware of any vitally important human issues. How many people are aware of the effect of nuclear testing on the planet and the environment?

Underground Atomic Bombs and CFCs

From Drunvalo Melchizidek’s, “The Emerald Tablets” (I think). The Emerald tablet PDF is in The Pdf Library

Some things are so scary that governments are afraid to tell you anything at all. It’s so important that somebody has to say something! CFCs: We’re told products like Freon will float up – because they’re lighter than air. But guess what, CFCs are not lighter than air, they’re four times heavier than air. They sink, they don’t rise! So how did they get up there? It might have been the 212 above ground atomic bombs that our governments have blown off in the world. Many people suspect that’s how all those CFCs got up there in the first place, and that it really wasn’t us who caused most of the problem with our air conditioners. It was the atomic governments of the world.

At one point they all went underground with their bombs, and we thought, That’s okay, they’re bombing underground; nothing will happen now. It’s not okay, folks. It’s probably the most dangerous thing that’s going on in the world today, even more than HAARP, and they’re still doing it.  ….. “(possibly dated), Wilson”

THE CFC-BOZONE HOLE SWINDLE
© August, 2008 by J Henry Phillips

Is the hole Natural or caused by the evils of freedom? Before global warming was elevated to its current status as Most Fashionable Apocalypse, religious fervor was every bit as intense in support of a different The-End-is-Near hypothesis. The Ozone Hole rallied about it a host of true believers absolutely convinced–by constant repetition in lieu of evidence–that chlorofluorocarbons, affectionately nicknamed CFCs, spelled the imminent doom of mankind. In a nutshell, measurements indicated less than the expected quantity of atmospheric ozone over the South Pole, not far from where Mount Erebus constantly erupts chlorine and other gases high into the atmosphere. Political ex-scientists quickly rounded up capitalist greed among the usual suspected causes, and pressured politicians–including Ronald Reagan–to ban the safest refrigerator gas in the history of chemical engineering. Was this a correctly drawn conclusion? Did it follow from true premises by proper methods of inference? Did any of that even matter?

Remember The Bomb fallout? By ignoring inconvenient facts while constantly dinning doom over the airwaves, a case strong enough to justify the sacrifice of freedom on the altars of coercive collectivism was made with relative ease. Concentrating all attention on the hypothetical exposure of penguins to sunburn, lobbyists skillfully steered attention away from several icebergs in the path of their argument. The first of these navigation hazards is wearily familiar to anyone familiar with data from early hydrogen bomb tests. Strontium 90 and carbon 14 in nuclear fallout stirred intense interest in the way things are transported in the atmosphere. Strontium 90 is chemically able to lodge itself in bones, much like calcium, and carbon 14, is able to lodge interchangeably with ordinary carbon in DNA. It was feared–for good reason–that the recoil from emitting a beta particle might dislodge carbon atoms in the constituent nuclei of amino acids and disrupt genetic material within the double helix. Congressmen became anxious to know whether the fallout was headed toward Washington, and two British scientists, A.W. Brewer and G.M.B. Dobson developed a picture of atmospheric circulation known as the Brewer-Dobson effect. If you have never heard of this effect, it is not for lack of relevance or importance, but rather, because the fact is inconvenient.

Fallout stays in its own hemisphere Picture a wet basketball spinning very rapidly on the fingertips of one of the Harlem Globetrotters. You’d expect the water to come spinning off the equatorial region of the ball, and so it does. The Earth’s atmosphere behaves in a roughly analogous fashion in that the air lower down, in the troposphere, is flung higher into the atmosphere as the Earth’s spin draws it toward the equator. There it collides almost head-on with the air mass from the other hemisphere. The Earth turns more slowly than a basketball and has considerable gravitational pull, so that the air in the stratosphere–instead of flying into space–flows back in elliptical paths toward the poles before reentering the troposphere and again being drawn toward the equator. A diagram of the pattern suggests that North is north and south is South and never the twain shall mix. Sure enough, measurements taken in the spring of 1958 showed that four to eight times as much fallout rained down on the hemisphere in which the hydrogen bombs were exploded. [FALLOUT -- A Study of Super Bombs, Strontium 90 and Survival, John M. Fowler, Ed., basic books, New York, 1960 pp. 30, 34]

So Bomb tests were moved south of the equator British politicians were the first to listen to Brewer and Dobson, and even before 1958 had already decided to move the testing of hydrogen bombs into someone else’s hemisphere. By the fall of 1958, however, the news had leaked out, and people in the southern hemisphere did not want nuclear fallout in their back yard. So bomb testing was driven underground. The fact remained, however, that things as tiny as atoms hurled en masse into the atmosphere with all the force of a hydrogen bomb explosion tended overwhelmingly to stay in the same hemisphere in which they were generated. This brings us to the second iceberg in the path of that Titanic effort to politicize science for purposes of peddling political pull. Read the full article at  http://jhenryphillips.com/bozonelayer.htm

Drunvalo Melchizidek continued……., Adam Trombly, a famous scientist who has accomplished important work in science, has been monitoring the underground atomic bombing around the world. He probably knows more about this than any other person in the world-even the governments recognize this. Trombly explains what happens when these atomic bombs are exploded underground. The energy doesn’t just sit there; it has to go somewhere, so it goes shooting through the Earth, bouncing off its insides, ripping apart the plates and doing incredible damage as it goes bouncing around like a ping-pong ball. This bouncing effect inside the Earth continues for about 30 days after the l explosion.

Trombly, much like Jacques Cousteau and others, now has a theory that predicts all kinds of things that will happen- and they’re all happening Mm! Things like the Indian Ocean dropping 23 feet over a very short period of time was predicted by Trombly at least ten years ago-just as Jacques Cousteau had predicted the death of the Mediterranean Sea in ten years. Many brilliant people are speaking out their truth, but few people are listening. If Trombly is correct, we’re only a few more atomic bombs away from the whole planet literally splitting apart in little pieces. The governments around the world have been on red alert since about 1991 over the changes happening to the Earth that were predicted by Trombly. They’re scared to death. Yet I believe China just blew up another one-and the U.S. is talking about blowing one up just because China did!

Ignoring inconvenient Facts

I think these are things that children should know about. I’m pretty sure they could handle it better than thirty year old’s who’ve come up through the same education system. Actually, “Education System” is not really accurate. Indoctrination System would be more apropos.

One of the things I observe through the entertainment media is the repeated statements – to the impossible or unknown where children are involved. We see it all the time when a child asks the adult if they will promise to do this or that. Doesn’t matter what it is – find my dog etc. The adult says, I promise, it will be OK, or, we’ll find them. No one can possibly genuinely make that promise. What’s wrong with the truth?

I’ll tell you what I think is wrong with the truth: Adults can’t handle it. Those adults lie to kids – to protect them? No, the lie is told to protect the image of themselves they’ve projected onto the child. One who doesn’t want bad news. Don’t burst my bubble.

Our system of learning is fatally flawed, unless you’re in need of a society incapable of taking control of it’s own destiny. If you can profit from a society of shopaholics, workaholics, addicts and alcoholics, it’s a fine system.

We’ve replaced learning with being taught. Being programmed. Is there a way to get educated, to gain knowledge without being taught, by teachers who were taught? How did people in the past gain knowledge?

What I see as the great liability of our system is that it has increasingly encouraged an alarming lack of personal wisdom. When it comes right down to it this is what can, and probably will, destroy the human race. The inconvenient fact is this is extremely probable. No matter how much we’d rather promise ourselves it won’t happen. No matter how preferable the comfort of delusion may be – facts don’t go away. What we face and what we are living out is: Advanced Technology coupled to a lack of Wisdom.

People can focus on others refusal to stop polluting the earth. They can insist that somebody do something – like the government, or the United Nations. But are people able to see the root cause? The root cause is a lack of wisdom – of epidemic proportion. Are there options for education?

“The Eastern philosophies are not religions in our sense of the word, since they contain neither a creed, a code or a cult. And there isn’t anything that you are expected to believe.”   Alan Watts

From yin yang nature (I think)

Taoism is not a religion and it is often said that Taoism is barely a philosophy. Taoism is the principle that all things take care of themselves and form an interlocking unity. Taoism gives us a new understanding of reality and provides us with the knowledge to live a life in harmony with Nature.

The ancient Chinese never developed a concept of God. They never saw Nature as something that was responding to a boss. The Chinese word for Nature is ‘tzu jan’ (pronounced “zi-run”) and is translated into English as ‘of itself so’. The Taoists saw Nature as something that is self perpetuating and following a pattern of intelligence.

The ancient Taoists also never indulged in mythology to explain the phenomena they observed around them. To find the answers to the mysteries of life, they simply looked to the most reliable thing they knew, Nature. They saw how Nature was designed to give everything a chance of success. From this the Taoists understood that if we also followed the course of Nature, we could experience the same opportunity of success.

We can also say Taoism isn’t a religion because there isn’t anything a Taoist must believe. Taoism doesn’t require a Taoist to take a leap of faith and blindly trust anything they are told. It is up to the individual to follow the course of life which is best suited for them. Not forcing the Taoist philosophy onto anyone is a fundamental Taoist belief. One thing a Taoist should never do is use force for any reason.

There is no threat of eternal damnation for not being a Taoist or a promise of eternal life for those who are. In this regard there is no advantage in being a Taoist what-so-ever. Taoists believe the same fate awaits us all, regardless of our personal beliefs.

The main focus of Taoism is living in the current moment. It is about how we see, understand and experience reality. The ancient Taoist view of reality is remarkably consistent with current scientific knowledge. Taoists believe that we live a life of unhappiness when we don’t see things as they truly are. The goal of Taoism is to relieve our anxieties and confusion by revealing reality as it truly is.

Most of us feel we are separate and isolated egos with no connection to other life or the environment. However, along with all other life we are a product of this planet and we are intimately connected to every aspect of it. Our survival is just as dependant on the wellbeing of the environment as it is on the health of our body.

Taoism teaches us that there isn’t anything wrong with the people we are. The problem is that we don’t trust our own intuition. Taoists find their natural selves by adapting the Taoist concept of the ‘un-carved block’. The un-carved block or ‘pu’ (pronounced “pooh”) is a state where one is untainted by cultural expectations and experiences. Most of us are victims of our own ego. Our ego often makes us behave in ways that is contrary to our survival. Pu is about no longer resisting our true self and following Nature’s flow.

I would suggest that we have lost our way. That we’re so far off the mark,  if we got started today on a path that valued wisdom first,  it would take two generations before a new global mindset would be generated.  But, maybe this is an exaggeration. After all I only get to see what’s happening in the western industrial world arena. Regardless, another path must be taken.

Knowledge

How can a person obtain knowledge that will aid the human race? In college I took philosophy and we looked at actualization and one of the philosophers we read stated that knowledge, or learning, that doesn’t directly better the conditions of man and society is of no use. I can’t remember who said it and I paraphrased, but, it has always stuck with me.

Are we learning anything worthwhile? Are we gaining knowledge that can better our conditions?

Watch this video Alan Watts – Who Guards the Guards?

What are we taught as to purpose? What has it made better? Instead of repeat myself I’ll just say that the way to real knowledge and understanding is through nature. Not, “Save the Beagle” nature. Not sustainable development or other ideas about nature, but people being in and being nature. The simple discovery of what we are as nature.

I noticed an ad on Hulu, where I watch shows with limited commercials, that told people: What the kids in Africa want most of all is an education. I really doubt it. If they’re kids, they want to play, to have enough to eat and to feel safe. What the ad should say is, what we want most is to export our education system here and indoctrinate this generation into the consumer market.

The world is lied to 24 hours a day, non stop, round the clock. It’s the biggest propaganda industry ever developed and it’s dedicated to the extinction of wisdom.

Belief

I know I’ve bashed belief mercilessly from day one on the website. I felt it necessary. Belief that is taught needs bashed, exposed and for the most part – discarded. It took 50 years for me to get beliefs that aren’t traumatizing. All trauma, that isn’t formed by torture, is formed from belief. Child abuse is torture. War, is torture, as is ridicule and so on.

Then there is the given belief. The wrong belief can traumatize us all through our lives without us even connecting the two. This is all discussed on the Main Website. What I want to talk about today is the Power of Belief.

It’s maybe the most powerful force known to man. I say maybe, because there may be something I don’t know about. My belief system today say’s being wrong is good. Every time I’m shown where I’ve been wrong about something is a chance to gain wisdom. It’s my belief that wisdom is the most useful thing we can have.

Some people will tell us that belief is likened to superstition and fundamentalism. This is their belief – work that one out. Belief is just belief. You say you like me, I may believe you. If your actions say different, maybe I’ll stop believing it. This is just the simple surface conscious belief we all have in one thing or another, at one time or another. The deeper beliefs, like a belief that we’ll never amount to anything, or that we can accomplish anything are far more powerful.

More to the point of this particular topic – what about a belief that we’re stuck with our current education system? How about, if you want to succeed in society you have to play by the rules? Whatever that means. Or, you can’t get anywhere without a college education? Some people are just born bad? It’s genetic? There’s nothing we can do, and so on. All these are deeper beliefs residing at the level of the subconscious that shape the world around us.

What would a mass shift in consciousness accomplish? What if everyone in the United States woke up tomorrow with the deep belief that we should stop being a part of the “Society Game”. What if, as a result, we stopped listening to advertisements, politicians, preachers, teachers? What if we all believed we just needed to slow down, look around, and find out what life and nature had to offer – on it’s own. Say we just wanted to observe life, because we believed that was where it was all at?

This has got to be one of the most confusing topics there is. Especially when we, as addicts and alcoholics, run across it in the 12 steps. Barely getting passed the God deal we are confronted with an instruction that few can fully comprehend. If we ask for advice or insight we’ll get a wide range of responses that will do little to diminish the vagueness we face in the whole idea. Why is it necessary to humbly ask a power greater than ourselves to remove our difficulties? Why, humbly?

It strikes me that in writing this line there was some predisposition to “who” that power would be. Whoever wrote it, wrote it for their own reasons. Why humbly? Why not just ask? Wouldn’t that work? Asking humbly sounds like we’re paying a toll. I’ll give you what you ask – you can cross the bridge – if you do something. If you give me what I want, I’ll take care of you. At least that’s how it sounds to me. For sure it suggests that this greater power has a personality. It’s suggested that “the power” is going to react to how we pose the question.

On the other hand I read Bills response: When asked what the difference was between character defects and difficulties – He replied, “There really is no difference, I just didn’t want to use the same words so close together”. I understand, I wanted to use confusing twice in the first paragraph and decided to use vagueness instead. I wonder how many people really understand words like humble? For me it feels like servitude. In fact originally that’s pretty much where it came from. The humble servant. Knowing ones place. I included a lot of resources in the bibliography below. From what I can gather, from most definitions, humble is not something I’d strive to be. But there I am faced with the conditional suggestion to – Humbly ask.

I mentioned earlier that I chose a definition for humility from a quote by Gandhi. It said that humility was an accurate assessment of ones assets and liabilities. My faults and my strengths – realistically assessed. A good rule of thumb for an accurate assessment is to let others point out the assets – favorable aspects to our character. As far as the steps go we need only unearth those things that threaten our sanity and therefore our ability to recover. This being said, how does it figure into our quest for an all round unburdening? For me, the bottom line in all this is not so much – what exactly the word means. It may be of some concern to me – why it was posed this way. But again, it’s just a human being writing things out the way he thinks is best at the time. Fairly important is the question of where am I to direct my question? Who or what am I supposed to be asking, humbly or not? And why do I need to ask anything of anything?

The whole higher power idea says there is help afforded us. It says we probably won’t be able to do this by ourselves. If we can get passed the “I can do it, I don’t need help place…” we have made steps in the right direction. The right direction being completely free of addictions. For me it is freedom from addictions and anything else that stands in the way of me being happy. That includes any ideas about “my happiness” that get in the way of “my happiness”. If I admit I’m powerless over whatever my addictions are, this just means, to me, that I’ll need some outside help. Outside help being something that’s not me. Does that mean that, like is often said around the meetings, that a god of my understanding can be anything I choose, as long as it’s not me? How does, not being me translate into a higher power: power greater that myself? There are a lot of things that aren’t me, that I have absolute power over. Door knobs and light bulbs are obvious examples. So the “anything but me” suggestion is misleading. I need power that I don’t possess. It might be that I possess the power I need but I don’t know how to wield it. I may not believe I have it. If this is the case, even if I do have the power, it’s of no use to me. Whatever the case – we’re after whatever works.

What do I mean by works? Whatever removes us from our addictions. By the time we get to the humility question we should be setting there with a list of liabilities we like to see gone. We’ve found stuff that is making us miserable and we want to be rid of it. So we are supposed to get help from a power greater than ourselves. The fact is, we’ve already been getting it. We’ve cooperated with life when we practiced the universal/spiritual principles necessary to get to this point. Life is, for now, a power greater than ourselves. Principles, for now, are a power greater than ourselves. We are being assisted right now. The only way, and I mean the only way, we can screw this up now – is to stop.

So what do we ask and how. We could certainly ask whatsoever has been helping us for more of the same. Don’t have a clear picture of what’s been helping? Good. Me neither. Doesn’t hinder us in any way. In fact I thinks it’s the best place to be. So much so that I have no intention of knowing any more than I do right now. If I found myself thinking I knew more I’d consider it – drifting off the path. How do we ask what we don’t know for help with what we don’t understand? It goes like this, “Hey, everything that could ever possibly be available? Yeah, it’s me, I want you to direct me to whatever is best”. Thanks.

There, pretty easy huh? Doesn’t mean anything else will be. Just means that as far as asking – something – for something – we’re on the other side of it now. You can ask once in the morning. Or you you can just talk to it all day long. You can ask and then go to the bar to find sex and drugs. You can ask and then pay attention to everything that passes your way and attempt to make the most of it. The asking isn’t a cure. You could ask for a cab to pick you up and help you get from here to there – does this guarantee you’ll get there? If you want a ride to someplace else – you have to be where you are. The cab company knows where you are. Life, higher powers, everything that is – knows where you are. That means you are in the right place right now.

Bibliography~

The entry from “The Oxford English Dictionary” [OED] proposes the date of circa 1375 for the word’s first WRITTEN entry into the English language. Of course, it could have well been used ORALLY before that. It comes from the Latin word “humilis,” meaning “low,” which, in turn, comes from the Latin “humus,” which means “earth” or “dirt” or “soil.”

Ted Nesbitt
http://www.allexperts.com/ep/1474-31636/Etymology-Meaning-Words/Ted-Nesbitt.htm

Adjective:
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin humilis low, humble, from humus earth; akin to Greek chth?n earth, chamai on the ground

Date: 13th century

1: not proud or haughty : not arrogant or assertive2: reflecting, expressing, or offered in a spirit of deference or submission 3 a: ranking low in a hierarchy or scale : insignificant, unpretentious b: not costly or luxurious

Transition Verb
1 : to make humble in spirit or manner 2 : to destroy the power, independence, or prestige of…

Humility: noun
Date: 14th century:

the quality or state of being humble…

The rest of the resources on humility:

Looked up human at Dictionary.com
c.1250, from M.Fr. humain “of or belonging to man,” from L. humanus, probably related to homo (gen. hominis) “man,” and to humus “earth,” on notion of “earthly beings,” as opposed to the gods (cf. Heb. adam “man,” from adamah “ground”). Cognate with O.Lith. zmuo (acc. zmuni) “man, male person.” Displaced its O.E. cognate guma (from P.Gmc. *guman-) which survives only in disguise in bridegroom. First record of humankind is from 1645. Humanoid (1918) is a hybrid of L. humanus and Gk. -oeides “like,” from eidos “form, shape” (see -oid).

humble (adj.) at Dictionary.com
c.1250, from O.Fr. humble, earlier humele, from L. humilis “lowly, humble,” lit. “on the ground,” from humus “earth.” Senses of “not self-asserting” and “of low birth or rank” were both in M.E. The verb is c.1380 in the intrans. sense of “to render oneself humble;” 1484 in the trans. sense of “to lower (someone) in dignity.”

c.1386, from O.Fr. humiliation, from L.L. humiliationem (nom. humiliatio) “humbling, humiliation,” from L. humiliare “to humble,” from humilis “humble.” Humiliate is c.1533, a back-formation of this.

humility at Dictionary.com
c.1315, from O.Fr. humilité, from L. humilitatem (nom. humilitas) “lowness, insignificance,” in Church L. “meekness,” from humilis “humble.” In the Mercian hymns, L. humilitatem is glossed by O.E. eaðmodnisse.

humility/hyumlti or, often, yu-/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [hyoo-mil-i-tee or, often, yoo-] Show IPA–noun
the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one’s own importance, rank, etc.

Origin: 1275–1325; ME humilite < L humilit?s. See humble, -ty 2

Synonyms:
lowliness, meekness, submissiveness.

Antonyms:
pride.

hu·mil·i·ty (hy??-m?l'?-t?)
n. The quality or condition of being humble.

Humility
Hu*mil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Humilities. [OE. humilite, OF. humilit['e], humelit['e], F. humilit['e], fr. L.
humiliatis. See Humble.]

1. The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.

Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. --Acts xx. 19.

2. An act of submission or courtesy.

With these humilities they satisfied the young king. --Sir J. Davies.

Syn: Lowliness; humbleness; meekness; modesty; diffidence.

Usage: Humility, Modesty, Diffidence. Diffidence is a distrust of our powers, combined with a fear lest our failure should be censured, since a dread of failure unconnected with a dread of censure is not usually called diffidence. It may be carried too far, and is not always, like modesty and humility, a virtue. Modesty, without supposing self-distrust, implies an unwillingness to put ourselves forward, and an absence of all over-confidence in our own powers. Humility consists in rating our claims low, in being willing to waive our rights, and take a lower place than might be our due. It does not require of us to underrate ourselves.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

humility:
c.1315, from O.Fr. humilité, from L. humilitatem (nom. humilitas) "lowness, insignificance," in Church L. "meekness," from humilis "humble." In the Mercian hymns, L. humilitatem is glossed by O.E. eaðmodnisse.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Humility:
a prominent Christian grace (Rom. 12:3; 15:17, 18; 1 Cor. 3:5-7; 2 Cor. 3:5; Phil. 4:11-13). It is a state of mind well pleasing to God (1 Pet. 3:4); it preserves the soul in tranquility (Ps. 69:32, 33), and makes us patient under trials (Job 1:22). Christ has set us an example of humility (Phil. 2:6-8). We should be led thereto by a remembrance of our sins (Lam. 3:39), and by the thought that it is the way to honour (Prov. 16:18), and that the greatest promises are made to the humble (Ps. 147:6; Isa. 57:15; 66:2; 1 Pet. 5:5). It is a “great paradox in Christianity that it makes humility the avenue to glory.”