David Given Schwarm

Humility is not underestimating oneself, such as the talented singer denying that he can sing. Humility is truth, or seeing ourselves as we really are — not as we think we are, nor as the public believes us to be, or as our press notices us

A mirror is silent, yet it reflects forests, sunsets, flowers, and faces. Great ascetic souls, given to year of meditation, have taken on a radiance and a beauty that are beyond the outlines of faces. They seem to reflect, like the mirror on the outside, the Christ they bear within.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats or intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, ‘I was wrong.’

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