Humility. Some say that it is necessary for enlightenment. I wonder though; many people in this world live very one dimensional lives. They go to work, do their jobs, come home, take care of their children, and repeat the next day. They don’t have any money to live out their dreams. Better yet, they may have in fact belonged to families where superfluous thought wasn’t encouraged.

I don’t necessarily see the acquisition of humility in our society encouraged, but I wonder if it would really even make a difference if it was. I think that the need arises when people undergo some forms of mental exercise which benefit from its presence. We always forget though, that “normal” in our world usually involves leading fairly boring lives, where half of it is spent suffering, and the other half trying to make it better.