Poor in Spirit

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Could someone give some examples and/or discussision about being poor in spirit in spiritual sense please?

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Could someone give some examples and/or discussision about being poor in spirit in spiritual sense please?

Thanks!
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One theory I learned in school was to be “poor in spirit” is to be humble and contrite, recognizing our guilt helplessness, and owing everything to God. It’s the utmost humility. It’s always putting another before yourself.

So, blessed are those who pass up material gains, and forfeit luxuries and accolades for the concern and comfort of others.

Does anyone have an older translation that could be translated more accurately into English?
 
I have heard that it means someone not attached to material goods. I may have things, but things do not own me. My reason for living is not accumulating stuff, but serving God, using those things that I have access to to that end.
 
Poverty of Spirit, I have read, is marked by two qualities: Humility, which is the foundation of all the virtues (St. Albert) and humility insights truth. Who I am and Who God Is. Poverty in spirit is also marked by sorrow and repentance, continual and ongoing, daily, conversion, since humility insights truth, and rich insight into the need of God’s Mercy and the richness of God’s Giving. Hence poverty of spirit is a gentle, trustful and a tranquil spirit.
Just as the materially poor are dependant on others for survival. The poor cannot pick and choose what to eat or what to wear for example, so the poor in spirit are totally grateful for whatever God gives them spiritually and know that God is a Good Father, giving no more nor no less than is needful- because poverty of spirit insights truth - God’s Divine Providence forever supplying whatever is needful and sufficient to make a great saint of one since God desires we realize our true selfhood which is our true self, wherein lay our real happiness.
St. Therese of Lisieux I think (whose feastday is on October 1st. coming) could be called a saint marked by poverty of spirit.

God’s Blessings and His Peace…Barb:)
 
Thank you all for your responses. I now have a better understanding of being poor in spirit.

God bless.
 
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