If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
No mind, no form, I only exist; Now ceased all will and thought. The final end of the Nature’s dance; I am it whom I have sought. A realm of bliss bare, ultimate, beyond both knower and known. A rest immense I enjoy at last; I face the one alone. I have crossed the secret ways of life; I have become the Goal. The Truth immutable is revealed; I am the way, the God-Soul. My spirit aware of all the heights, I am mute in the core of the Sun. I barter nothing with time and deeds; my cosmic play is done.
God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.
Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.
