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Humility Is the Fragrance of Your Soul

  • Heidi Schmitz Colombo
  • Dec 7, 2025
  • 3 min read

Humility is one of the most misunderstood states of being. Most people hear the word and think:


  • “Be small.”

  • “Don’t shine too brightly.”

  • “Stay modest.”


But true humility has nothing to do with shrinking — and everything to do with alignment.

Your spiritual DNA is perfect. There is nothing small about you. Your potential is infinite, your essence is expansive, and your true nature is pure intelligence in motion.


Power does not come from ego — it comes from identity. And when you step into the identity of your future self, ego naturally dissolves, leaving behind a grounded, clear presence.

So what, then, is humility?


Humility is the natural fragrance that radiates from you when your ego steps aside and your soul takes the lead.


You don’t perform humility. You emanate it. It becomes the scent of your spirit — soft, steady, unmistakable.


The Soul Doesn’t Need to Prove Anything

“You don’t get better by getting louder. You get better by becoming more aware.”

Awareness is the birthplace of humility.

When you know who you are —and whose power you’re connected to —you no longer need:

  • comparison

  • validation

  • applause

  • superiority

  • performance

  • permission

Humility emerges when you’re anchored in truth. You don’t inflate yourself. You also don’t minimize yourself.


You simply are.


And that “beingness” is enough.

Neutral power — presence without performance.


Humility as Identity, Not Behavior

Humility is not something you try to be. Trying is ego.

Humility is something you become when your identity shifts upward.

When your identity is grounded in:

  • self-respect

  • gratitude

  • purpose

  • service

  • truth

  • alignment

…your presence emits humility effortlessly.

This is what it feels like:

  • Confidence without arrogance

  • Strength without force

  • Influence without manipulation

  • Leadership without needing credit

  • Greatness without noise

Humility is what happens when the soul becomes louder than the mind.


Humility Creates Access to Power

Spirit is always for expansion and fuller expression. Humility keeps you open to that expansion because it dissolves the blockages of ego.


Ego says:

“I know.”

Humility says:

“I’m open.”

Ego says:

“I’ve arrived.”

Humility says:

“Where can I grow?”

Ego defends. Humility receives.

In this receiving, your awareness expands, and as awareness expands, your results expand.


This is why humility is not weakness. Humility is what makes you dangerous.


Because when you are open:

  • you learn faster

  • you shift faster

  • you evolve faster

  • you receive more

  • you create more

  • you step into your future self more cleanly


Humility keeps you available to greatness.


The Fragrance of Humility in Daily Life

Imagine that humility is the fragrance your soul releases when you are in truth. Here’s how it shows up:


1. You listen more deeply than you speak.

Because you’re not trying to be right — you’re trying to understand.

2. You don’t shrink and you don’t boast.

You stand where you are with quiet certainty.

3. You treat everyone with the same level of respect.

You see the soul, not the status.

4. You take responsibility instead of defending your position.

Accountability is humility in action.

5. You let your results speak — not your ego.

You don’t chase validation; you build identity.


Identity is the energetic blueprint of behavior.

When your identity rises, humility is not harder — it becomes natural.

You don’t try to “act humble.” You simply stop needing the ego’s protection.

Humility is the result of:

  • inner security

  • spiritual alignment

  • self-leadership

  • emotional maturity

  • being guided by purpose rather than perception

It is the fragrance of someone who has rewritten their story and no longer lives through the ego’s lens.


How to Practice the Fragrance of Humility Today


1. Release the need to be understood.

Your soul doesn’t argue — it aligns.

2. Ask, “What would my future self do here?”

Your future self is humble because she is secure.

3. Serve without being seen.

Do something good and tell no one.

4. Let your presence do the talking.

Humility radiates. It doesn’t announce.

5. Honor your own growth.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it’s realizing how extraordinary your becoming truly is.


Final Thought

Humility is not a posture.

It is the glow of your soul when you no longer need fear, ego, or validation to move through the world.


It is the quiet confidence of someone who knows:

I am powerful, I am guided, I am here to grow, and I don’t need to prove any of it.


Humility is the fragrance left behind when you walk in truth.


 
 
 

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