Daily Signet

Humility is not that we think less of ourselves, but that we think about ourselves less.

The less often you think about yourself—the less self-confident, the less self-aware, the less self-conscious you are—the greater you will be and will feel. All freedom is freedom from self.

Lose the self in the greater-than-you-are. Avoid people who make you self-aware. So live that people never notice you—they notice what you are saying, what you are doing, what you are achieving—then they will remember you as a far greater person.

Mastering an art lies in loss of self in the art—as in the art of living. 

William Boast

On This Day…

St. Columba (Columcille): 6C Irish monk, founder of many monastaries including Derry, Darrow and Kell. Involved in a long feud with King Diarmid – when 3,000 men were killed in the resulting battle of Cuil Dremne, Columcille left Ireland in atonement and vowed to convert 3,000 to Christianity. Founded and built the monastery on the Holy Isle of Iona, where he is buried.