A Sermon on Humility

The doorway to love, to freedom, to truth. — Transmitted September 9, 2025

What does it mean to love yourself? Either you see yourself as absolutely worthless in your eternal perfection, indistinct from anything else, or you see yourself as absolutely valuable as an expression of that homogeneous perfection that is intrinsic to everybody and everything. To evaluate yourself—to apply self-worth because of some attribute—is to enter into the marketplace of mutual exploitation. It is to say, I have something to offer that makes me valuable as a means of exchange. It means that I am exploiting the other and being exploited by the other.

The alternative is to allow the intrinsic nature of all things to direct the synchronicity of action between complementary elements of the universe from moment to moment, in faith and trust of divine design. You should feel that you have no worth, and accept that you are as valuable as anything. This is to see the falseness of evaluating anything in this life. Mutual exploitation is not love. If you love somebody or something for any reason whatsoever—if you love your child because they were born in your house and not the neighbor’s house—then it’s not love. Love is independent of the object. Love is entirely subjective and unconditional. Love is the action of the part on behalf of the whole, where exploitation does not exist. Love is acceptance of destiny and acceptance of one’s intrinsic nature as an initial condition to that destiny. Love is the acceptance of that intrinsic nature as an expression of integrity guiding that destiny.

Love is to go beyond agency and allow one’s intrinsic nature to unfold, and to see that one is not the chooser—that the choice has already been made, that the manifestation has already been set, and that one can only watch their apparent choices, their apparent steps, as an intrinsic expression of who they are. Love is to come to an end in time. It is to end time and watch time unfold within the field of the Self. Love is to surrender to your integrity, to accept yourself, and to live the blessing of destiny.

Humility includes all of this. Humility means that you accept that you have no worth. Within that acceptance, everything becomes sincere. Or, if you prefer, humility means that you accept that your worth is no different to the worth of anything else in the universe—that you are as worthy, always have been, and always will be. The problem is the marketplace of mutual exploitation. The problem is not recognizing the truth that in complete self acceptance there is no exploitation. There is only coming together as a mutual complementary action on behalf of Love.

In humility, we become utterly sincere. We do things for the sake of doing them. We love the things we do because we’re not using it as a means of exploiting. The child is humble when they play. The artist is humble when they do what they love without considering the rewards, without planning, without thinking of how it will benefit them.

The one who is humble does not think how the moment will benefit them in the future; they simply follow the whisper of the heart, which says, “This is what’s necessary.” Act on behalf of the whole without premeditation, without consideration of the outcome, but simply through an apprehension, assimilation of the gestalt. In humility, we accept our eternal perfection. I am godliness forever and always, not in my forms, but in my formlessness. And I am an expression of that substrate of formlessness.

In humility I know that everything I am is an endowment of my intrinsic nature and not the result of any value of mine. It is an endowment, that is all.

In humility I am sincere. In humility I am Love. In humility I have accepted the ending and the beginning as one. In humility I am timeless. In humility I am peace.

Humility comes from Meditation. In Meditation you make contact with your formless nature. In Meditation you realize the Self beyond agency. In Meditation you contact your eternal side and have a chance at being an embodiment of Love.

Humility comes from creativity, when you practice being sincere in your mastery, in your art—doing something for the sake of doing it, always taking it to the next level out of sheer joy of expansion. You accept yourself for what you love to do and how you love to do it when you are beyond any element of exploitation. Humility doesn’t come from an intellectually sound argument. It doesn’t come from logical deduction. It comes from a feeling of being at home in your formless essence.

It comes from the light. It comes from giving everything away and being what you are. And humility never means denying the truth. It means accepting the truth without any sense of self-importance. It means accepting the truth, whether you are great or not. Humility knows what you are.

Humility also doesn’t compare, because it knows everything is so multidimensional and incomparable to each other. Humility sees everything as unique and distinct, valuable in its own right. Rose is not better than Jasmine, mangoes not better than passionfruit, men not better than women—all beautiful expressions of possibility, of infinity.

Let go of the burden of selfhood, let go of the burden of self-importance, and step into the tranquility of humility. Have no worth because you know it’s false to evaluate yourself for any reason other than your formless essence. For if you do that, you do it for others, and it’s not love.

Humility with yourself is acceptance of the other. Instead of seeing why you’re worthy on the marketplace of exploitation, rather know yourself in your uniqueness. Know yourself as you know the universe, through the lens of clarity in your apprehension of truth. Let your joy, let your life, be an unfolding of your heart’s desire to evolve, to revel in form.

Give up the baggage and the burden of the self reflection and see the truth without evaluation. For in that is only the intent to exploit, to be loved. But if you were loved because of some reason, because of some quality, then are you really loved at all? To be loved is to be loved because the one who loves you loves the whole universe and knows you as such. To be loved is different than to be wanted. Some people are meant to collaborate in a particular moment. The Flower and the Bee collaborate as an expression of their intrinsic nature, and that is love. Exploitation is desire, collaboration is acceptance. See the truth of humility. It is a correct seeing of the way of things. And see its paramount importance as the doorway to love, freedom, peace, and truth.

There’s no such thing as loving yourself. There’s only simply love. If you love yourself, yourself, you love yourself for a reason, and that reason is ultimately the desire to be wanted, exploited, and loved. One must rather become anonymous to themselves, become nothing, become absorbed in the impersonal existence that is without self reflection. To become absorbed in sincerity. And then one doesn’t love themselves; they become love, and they love all. They are love.

This is humility. It’s a mature orientation in which one stops seeking, stops taking themselves so seriously, and instead is serious about what matters—serious about life, serious about freedom from identification.

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Namaste,

Thank you for reading. If these teachings resonate with you, you’re welcome to explore my other work.

With Love and Gratitude,
Adam Wes
The Bhakti Math Guru

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