Who would you even talk about modesty?

 

What happens with the modesty when you crate an ideal out of it, when you make a virtue out of it?

When modesty is a virtue, an end, a goal, does it not simply become a prideful mean of self-expansion?

 

All this talk about modesty, all this idealising of it, it is simply the working of the PRIDEFUL SELF.

Self loves ideals. In the light of ideals it finds guidance, it finds support. The self is always prideful, always ambitious, always expansive, and it expands within the bounds of ideals.

 

Obviously, you can’t be proud of being modest.

It makes no sense.

Can you be immodestly modest?

Obviously not.

 

Modesty is an ideal created by immodest people.

Don’t try to be modest.

Effort betrays the self. Self which is never modest – always egoic.

Modesty is only in the effortless transcendence of the self.

Modesty comes into being when the self is not.

Talking about modesty has nothing to do with modesty.

 

Expressing oneself IMMODESTLY is FAR MORE MODEST then PRETENDING to be VIRTUOUSLY MODEST.

Actually, what we call immodesty, may very well be the UTMOST modesty.

A truly modest person doesn’t bother with looking modest.