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X-WR-CALDESC:<i>The sixth step of humility is that we are content with the 
 lowest and most menial treatment\, and regard ourselves as a poor and wort
 hless worker in whatever task we are given\, saying with the prophet: 'I a
 m insignificant and ignorant\, no better than a beast before you\, yet I a
 m with you always (Ps 73:22-23).'</i>\n\nIn a classless society status is 
 snatched in normally harmless but corrosive little ways. We are a people w
 ho like embossed business cards\, and monogrammed leather briefcases\, and
  invitations to public events. We spend money we don't have to buy cars wi
 th sliding glass windows in the ceiling. We go into debt to buy at the rig
 ht stores and live on the right street and go to the right schools. We cal
 l ourselves failures if we can't turn last year's models in on this year's
  styles. We measure our successes by the degree to which they outspan the 
 successes of the neighbors. We have lost a sense of 'enoughness.'\n\nBened
 ict tells us that it is bad for the soul to have to have more than the nec
 essary\, that it gluts us\, that it protects us in plexiglass from the nor
 mal\, the natural. Benedict says that the goal of life is not to amass thi
 ngs but to get the most out of whatever little we have. Benedict tells us 
 to quit climbing. If we can learn to love life where we are\, in what we h
 ave\, then we will have room in our souls for what life alone does not hav
 e to offer.\n\nThe Tao Te Ching teaches\, 'Free from desire\, you realize 
 the mystery. Caught in desire\, you see only the manifestations.'
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DESCRIPTION:<i>The sixth step of humility is that we are content with the l
 owest and most menial treatment\, and regard ourselves as a poor and worth
 less worker in whatever task we are given\, saying with the prophet: 'I am
  insignificant and ignorant\, no better than a beast before you\, yet I am
  with you always (Ps 73:22-23).'</i>\n\nIn a classless society status is s
 natched in normally harmless but corrosive little ways. We are a people wh
 o like embossed business cards\, and monogrammed leather briefcases\, and 
 invitations to public events. We spend money we don't have to buy cars wit
 h sliding glass windows in the ceiling. We go into debt to buy at the righ
 t stores and live on the right street and go to the right schools. We call
  ourselves failures if we can't turn last year's models in on this year's 
 styles. We measure our successes by the degree to which they outspan the s
 uccesses of the neighbors. We have lost a sense of 'enoughness.'\n\nBenedi
 ct tells us that it is bad for the soul to have to have more than the nece
 ssary\, that it gluts us\, that it protects us in plexiglass from the norm
 al\, the natural. Benedict says that the goal of life is not to amass thin
 gs but to get the most out of whatever little we have. Benedict tells us t
 o quit climbing. If we can learn to love life where we are\, in what we ha
 ve\, then we will have room in our souls for what life alone does not have
  to offer.\n\nThe Tao Te Ching teaches\, 'Free from desire\, you realize t
 he mystery. Caught in desire\, you see only the manifestations.'
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LOCATION:Chapter 7
SUMMARY:Humility
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