In my last post: “The De-glamoured View,”  I said that at a certain point in our journey to enlightenment most of us need to undergo  a gigantic ”humbling” - although, to be honest, we usually experience lesser humblings prior to this, as if to soften us up for the big, painful one! In today’s post,  I thought I would elaborate on this very important aspect of our spiritual/soul  journey, which can be, if we allow it to be, a major turning point in how we live our life.

 The Purpose of Our “Humblings.”

 All humbling experiences are intended to strip us of our arrogance,  and one of our greatest arrogances is our tendency to believe we have the ability to manage our life successfully, and often the lives of other people,  as well.   To believe we have this power to control most of what happens  in our own and other people’s lives,  is both an illusion and an arrogance, and our “humblings,”  are  attempts by our soul to cure us of this hubristic attitude.  

Quite simply, our soul attracts  a humbling experience  to us so that the size of our ego can be reduced. In  plain language:  so that we can be firmly put in our place and shown that we are most certainly not the captain of our own ship -  our own life. Neither are we capable of being the captain of other people’s ships, or lives.   This is a very important lesson  we all have to learn in life and we discount it to our cost. Incidentally, I’m using the term “ego” in this sense, to mean our sense of individual self, IE. the little “me” or “I,” that we perceive ourselves to be. 

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