“The true self is a more spiritual level of awareness. We begin to be willing to accept ourselves just as we are. God is as God is and all reality as it is…This is really what humility is, which is a basic disposition in the spiritual journey: the capacity to accept all reality– God, ourselves, other people, all creation– as they are and as they manifest in… the present moment and its content.”

-Thomas Keating, Invitation from God