@pshingle,
I see to be humble means to accept, means to lay down the life you hold at the insistence of the wolrd. Insistence will take your soul form you, how can you be humble and still insist your soul remians yours alone?
Perhaps a cure to this could be to be willing and able to give over your soul over all when ever it is not just insisted you do so but so you can be humble to the service of the world that will take more than you have to offer but which you must forever lend.
Perhaps the soul never ends so we need not ever be without as much as we need to survive?
How can one be all humble and still hold on to anything that the world insists it must have of you.
Now can a humble man be part of the world and hold still that he is humble when to survive the world means one must insist upon it?