Humility

Humility consists in having removed all of the masks that we use to make ourselves acceptable to others and simply being who we actually are as we stand before God.

Humble people do not become anxious over the lives of others and what they eat or drink or wear or conform or how they act. To fret over these is to fill your life with confusion. Indeed, genuine contemplatives see these as only further invitations to further rest in God and leave these aside. It is never humble to insist on being someone whom you are not. It requires heroism to simply be only who God made you to be. Those who do not understand will insist that your honesty is actually only pride. And so it is that you will learn that the greatest humility can only be learned through persecution...maintaining your balance without becoming reactive. You will need to not assert your false self against the false selves of others. After all, how can you maintain union with God when you hurry along the road to another person's city? Hurry ruins the spiritual life. Some mistakenly even argue that their very haste is an integral part of the process of becoming their true self.

The only question is whether you really want to be the person who God made you to be and so to not try to waste your effort trying to be someone else.