The Beauty Of Humility

What if true freedom is simply the permission to be yourself? In this reflection, Tiger explores the deep longing for humility—not as a weakness, but as a release from the exhausting need to pretend. When we stop trying to match an image of what we think we should be, we discover the beauty of sincerity. Life isn’t about performing spirituality or proving our worth; it’s about allowing truth to be what it is, without resistance. And in that, there is something profoundly freeing… and even fun.

Transcript

Do you see the beautiful invitation into humility?

That's been on my awareness for a few weeks now because I had such a beautiful Zoom conversation with someone about their absolute fear of being humiliated,

Which turned into a massive resistance towards being humble,

Which makes connecting with this truth very difficult.

I love the beautiful humility,

And I'm willing to bet that deep down,

We all have this secret longing for absolute humility,

Which is kind of like saying,

I wish it was just totally okay for me to be me.

I so wish I didn't have to pretend to be better,

To pretend to be smarter,

To pretend to know something that I don't really know.

I wish I could just allow the truth to be the truth,

And I wish that that was okay.

Of course,

That's simply craving the truth,

Because it is okay.

This is very practical,

Even as we live our human lives.

I wouldn't be able to do this work if I had to match some sort of image of being spiritual.

If that's what it was about,

If it was about personifying some image of a spiritual person,

I would lose that contest,

And therefore I couldn't talk about spiritual things.

But that's not what it's about.

What is it about?

It's about discovering a permission to allow what is sincere to be what is sincere.

For me,

In my life,

Talking about these things,

What I consider to be the most beautiful thing to talk about,

Is the most sincere thing for me to do.

I've often told people that consider me a spiritual teacher,

The best teaching would be for you to come hang out with me for a week,

And have all of your illusions destroyed about how a spiritual person lives their life.

You'd be like,

Oh,

You're just a dude.

Yeah,

Sorry,

Not so exciting.

Because I've seen that,

And you know,

In the many years that I've been doing this,

Traveling around,

Speaking,

You get those projections.

It's like,

No,

I'm just a dude.

But this is fascinating,

Isn't it?

It's fun.

Reviews

Beautiful ❤️🙏🏼

When the pretending became sooo exhausting, embracing humilty became the ultimate exhale. Deepest gratitude friend 🙏🏽

Thank you
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Thank you 🙏

just a dude 😎 and i’m just a dudette 😊