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Leland Joseph R. Dela Cruz

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Greatness and Humility

25 January 2006

For some reason, I was inspired to bring out all my essays (and create a new one) about greatness and humility.

The three essays with a religious flavor end up coming back to the theme of obedience as a way of reconciling the difference between greatness and humility.

• Indifference, the earliest written essay of the three, is located in Wonderland and directly reflects upon St. Ignatius' Principle and Foundation. It inverts standard interpretations by aspiring martyrs and argues that some are called to greatness and wealth.

• The second essay entitled Humility and Obedience, also located in Wonderland, most directly examines the nature of humility.

• The third essay entitled Not Many But Much, located in Fr. Ferapont's newly re-christened Monasterium Tremendum talks about a special kind of humility and a strange kind of vocation for some talented people.

The essay in Shades of Grey entitled The Conferment of Laurel Wreaths in Philippine Society is the newest essay written especially for this website. It argues that greatness is socially bestowed.

Not Many But Much is the essay on Greatness and Humility that hits closest to home for me, largely because I wrote that to make sense of my own experiences while the other essays were written for other people.

Two essays have nothing to do with humility or greatness.

The essay found in Father Goose's nursery on Asian Identities continues the theme of constructed realities found in the non-religious essay.

And I continue the series on my name, this time talking about The Consequences of Being Dela Cruz in Still Waters.

Happy (Chinese and Roman) New Year to everyone!

Shades of Grey

Random thoughts of an ex-future Messiah

Still Waters

About the world we live in and life in general

Fr. Ferapont's Monasterium Tremendum

Religious reflections of an aspiring homilist

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Last Updated 25 January 2005

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