Humility and human come from the Latin word, humus,dirt. A human being is someone . . . taken out of the dirt. A humble person is one who recognizes that and even rejoices in it!
When Carl Jung was toward the end of his life, a student who was reading the classic book The Pilgrim's Progress asked him what his pilgrim's progress had been. Jung said, "I have had to climb down ten thousand ladders so that at the end of my life I can reach out the hand of friendship to this little clod of earth that I am." That's the poverty of spirit that Jesus chose and that he calls "blessed."
— Richard Rohr, Radical Grace: Daily Meditations