Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Interpretation
Humility is the foundation from which all positive qualities and virtues grow.
This quote by Thomas Moore suggests that humility is an essential quality that nurtures and supports the development of all other virtuous traits. By likening humility to a 'low, sweet root,' Moore emphasizes its understated yet vital role in fostering kindness, generosity, and other heavenly virtues that enrich our lives and those around us.
In practice
During a team meeting, one might say, 'As Thomas Moore said, 'Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot,' to emphasize the importance of being humble in our collaborative efforts.
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires to be honored at all. He allows you to know them but not to comprehend them. No one must know the extent of his abilities, lest he be disappointed. No one ever has an opportunity of fathoming him entirely. For guesses and doubts about the extent of his talents arouse more veneration than accurate knowledge of them, be they ever so great.
How many things I can do without!
Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.
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