The habits of our ego obscure our humility. Some people impress us and some people repulse us. We want desperately to be more impressive than repulsive. When we start to think we are impressive, we take off on a little ego trip. When we begin to imagine we are repulsive, off we go in the other direction. Humility helps us go on those little trips and come back to ourselves without causing too much damage along the way. — zenmister