If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
Interpretation
Being humble allows you to be open to new knowledge and experiences.
This quote by John Templeton emphasizes the importance of humility in the pursuit of knowledge. An egotistical mindset can create barriers to learning, as it often leads to closed-mindedness and a reluctance to accept that there is more to discover. Embracing humility, on the other hand, opens up opportunities to grow and learn from others.
In practice
In a workshop about personal development, one might say this quote to encourage participants to embrace learning.
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry of service performed by every useful life.
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.
The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.
When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.
We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.
When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.
Manβs strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?
Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy.
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