Humility is generally defined as the absence of arrogance or haughtiness. Going deeper, Christian Science shows that humility is an enlightened dependence on God, the cause of all true existence, the source of all real intelligence, ability, and activity.
Humility helps us to recognize real selfhood as the reflection of infinite, all-knowing Mind, God, and to lay off false, limiting beliefs in a material selfhood. With the divine power and presence thus magnified to human consciousness, our experience becomes more spiritually progressive and productive.
Notwithstanding such blessings as these, sometimes people who are strongly motivated think humility is incompatible with achievement and hesitate to adopt this quality. They hold back on knowing God better for fear of becoming too toned down, even bland. But Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, after discussing in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures the need to understand spiritual existence, points out, "This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man's absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace."Science and Health, p. 265.
