Our chief has always taught us: You must be humble. Whoever you are and whatever you do you must be humble. Then you will be considerate of others and you will be happy.

Ralph Hotwea  Hopi

Every newcomer is told, and soon realizes for himself, that his humble admission of powerlessness over alcohol is his first step toward liberation from its paralyzing grip.

So it is that we see humility as a necessity. But this is the barest beginning. To get completely away from our aversion to the idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired for itself, takes most of us a long, long time. A whole lifetime geared to self-centeredness cannot be set in reverse all at once.

Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions  pgs. 72 & 73

Reprinted with permission A.A.W.S.

Absolute humility would consist of a state of complete freedom from myself, freedom from all the claims that my defects of character now lay so heavily upon me. Perfect humility would be a full willingness, in all times and places, to find and do the will of God.

When I meditate upon such a vision, I need not be dismayed because I shall never attain it, nor need I swell with presumption that one of these days its virtues shall all be mine. 

Bill W.  AA Grapevine  June 1961

Reprinted with permission AA Grapevine

Great Spirit let me walk in humility.