Notes To My Younger Self:

Humility:

From Oxford’s Dictionary:  a modest or low view of one’s own importance; humbleness.

Merriam Webster:  freedom from pride or arrogance : the quality or state of being humble

Dictionary .com: the modest opinion or estimate of one’s own importance, rank, etc.

Urban Dictionary: True humility is to recognize your value and others value while looking up. It is to see there is far greater than ourself into who we can become, who others can become, and how much more we can do and be.

To serve others and be for their good as well as your own

To have a realistic appreciation of your great strengths, but also of your weaknesses

Humiliation: 

Merriam: to reduce (someone) to a lower position in one’s own eyes or others’ eyes : to make (someone) ashamed or embarrassed

Dictionary .com: the feeling of being ashamed or losing respect for yourself

Urban Dictionary:  To belittle or embarrass someone to an extreme degree.

E.L.Chappel author of Spirit Dance/Storm Makers/Coming very soon: The Surge

We are not above others and they are not above us. We have no right to judge or belittle those who don’t agree with us no more than others have the right to judge or belittle us when we don’t agree with them ~paraphrased from SESH Blue Book.

aka A woman with a purpose

 

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