If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments; they are like part of God.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
When we see everything in life as a game, we will be equally joyous when falling as we are when rising. If we can fully understand this – if we can see life as swinging on a swing – we will never fall apart when failure comes our way.
