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In his book, Let Your Life Speak, author Parker Palmer, a Quaker, writes, Years ago, someone told me that humility is central to the spiritual life. That made sense to me, but this person did not tell me the path to humility leads through humiliation, where we are brought low, rendered powerless, stripped of pretenses & defenses. It can be a place where we are left feeling fraudulent, empty, and useless; a humiliation that allows us to regrow our lives from the ground up,The humiliation that brings us down-to-ground on which it is safe to stand or to fall, eventually takes us to a firmer and fuller sense of self. When people ask how it felt to emerge from depression, I can give only one answer: I felt at home in my own skin, and at home on the face of the earth for the first time. I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it, but to embrace all of it.Note from Doyle: The statement above is for your consideration. It is Palmer's perspective, not necessarily a train of thought I'm pushing. What caught my attention was the statement, The road to humility runs through humiliation. I probably would have said, The road to humility may run through humiliation. Whachathink