Humility

Anything we have developed to help us survive, including qualities such as strength, sensitivity, intelligence, charisma, need to be looked into and eventually dissolved away. Not because these qualities are bad – they are not – but because they are part of our habitual framework – our conditioning – and as such they hinder natural functioning – honest immediacy – and they hinder spiritual growth. Survival is all about putting oneself first – competing in order to prevail, whereas spiritual work is about putting the other first in order to dissolve the self in the heat of the moment.