"... Bhagavan Himself was very active and did all sorts of work. He stitched leaves, He made kamandalams, He perfected staffs, He assisted in the kitchen, grinding, preparing pastes, cutting vegetables and actual cooking. He acted as a mid-wife to dogs and monkeys. And he did all this without the least attachment and did it all perfectly. The proof of one's doing the actions without attachment is that one feels that it is the Lord who uses one to get things done and done so well. His whole being says: 'The supreme has done these things through me'. Such humility is the mark of spiritual maturity."

~ Sri Sadhu Natanananda describing Sri Bhagavan's teachings to V. Ganesan (from "Beloved Ramana")

Humility means seeing God in everything or perceiving one's own Self everywhere. Humility means accepting the Will of the Supreme. Humility means self-surrender, surrendering our will to the Will of God .... All reactions disappear. There are no more reactions, only acceptance. Therefore, humility can also be interpreted as total acceptance ... Real surrender is surrendering or renouncing one's ego at the feet of the Supreme Self.

~ Amma Mata Amritanandamayi

The Three Virtues

There are three main virtues that you have to acquire
in order to become liberated.
There are three virtues that are most important,
most important for you to achieve,
before enlightenment.

Every enlightened person on this earth,
everyone who's been liberated has had these virtues.
You cannot be liberated without them.

The first one is compassion.
The second one is humility.
And the third one is service.

~ Robert Adams, Silence of the Heart

His sublime state of humility

One's greatness increases to the extent that one becomes humble. The reason why God is supreme to such an extent that the whole universe bows to Him is His sublime state of humility in which the deluded ego never rises unknowingly.

Is it not on account of His behaving so humbly, as one ever in the service of every creature, that God stands worthy of all the glorious worships ever performed by all the worlds? By seeing Himself in all, by being humble even to devotees who bow to everyone, and by naturally remaining at such a pinnacle of humility that nothing can be humbler than Himself, the state of being supreme has come to the Lord.

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Ramana Darsanam