“One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
Last update June 3, 2021.
History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time." by Madeleine L'Engle?
Madeleine L'Engle 223
American writer 1918–2007Related quotes
Miguel de Unamuno
(1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VII : Love, Suffering, Pity
“To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
(1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
"Fifth Talk in The Oak Grove, 11 June 1944" http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=173&chid=4529&w=%22To+understand+oneself+requires+patience%22&s=Text, J. Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 440611, Vol. III, p. 219
Posthumous publications, The Collected Works
Context: To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.
“November: Axe-in-Hand”, p. 68.
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "November: Axe-in-Hand," "November: A Mighty Fortress," and "December: Pines above the Snow"
Context: I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.
Thomas S. Monson
(1927–2018) president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Decisions Determine Destiny, fireside address http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=10726| delivered on 6 November 2005.
“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”
Walter Benjamin
(1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)
“But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.”
Elizabeth Bowen
(1899–1973) Irish writer
