“I am humble not because I want to be agreeable. I don’t accept being humble for tactical reasons. I am humble because I am incomplete. Just because of that. This is not because I need people to love me, though I need that people love me, but I don’t have to make any kind of trap for the love. Do you see?”
Paulo Freire
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2 comments:
that's good advice from a friend of the soul...
and you could replace humble with many other adjectives and it would be true. on the whole, i reckon he's talking about being genuine, and avoiding your OWN snares. who hasn't been caught in one? they hurt all the way through to the soul.
Well said.
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