Destruction

91. Holy humility is inimical to Un Certain Speculations subtle, for instance, you say that you can not understand how it is That You yourself are mere nothingness, in doing and being, Because You can not help knowing That You are in reality something and can do many things; That you can not understand why you are the greatest of all sinners, Because you know so many others who are sinners Greater than yourself, nor how it is That You merit all the vituperations of men, When You Know That You Have Done actions not worthy of blame, but, on the Contrary, many worthy of praise.
You should still reprove yourself for being so far from true humility in thinking That You Could grasp the meaning of These Things. The truly humble Believes That he is of himself to mere nothingness, Greater sinner than others, inferior to all, worthy of being reviled by all as being, more than all others, ungrateful to God. That He knows this feeling of his conscience is absolutely true, and does not care to Investigate How this comes to be true, his knowledge is practical, and even if I does not understand himself, and can not explain to others, With subtle reasoning, what I feels in his heart, I have as little minds being unable to Explain this as I have minds his Inability to explain how the eye sees, the tongue speaks, the ear hears. And May From this we infer That It is Not necessary to have great talents in order to be humble, and THEREFORE before the tribunal of God it will not be a valid excuse for us to say: "I Have not Been humble because i did not know, because i did not understand, because i did not study. " We can have a good will, a good heart, and yet not be clever, and there is no one who can not grasp this truth, That from God comes all the good That I have Possesses and That no one has anything of his own except his own malice. "Destruction is thy own, O Israel: thy help is only in Me," [xiii Osee, 9] God said by the mouth of His prophet