Thought...

"Neither what you are - however great your virtues - nor the

social position you hold - however high it may be - will be able

to prevent your having opponents. In life, we always have to

fight, but there are two kinds of fighting: one where you do away

with your opponents and the other where you spare them. If you do

away with your opponents, you will have no more fighting, and

this will be catastrophic: you will no longer make progress! If

you spare them so you can fight them all your life, you will

continue to get stronger.

Just think how many people try to get rid of their enemies! And

what happens when they finally succeed? They don't feel any

happier; they have the feeling that something is missing, for

they needed their opponents to pit themselves against. So you

shouldn't do away with your opponents, but know how to go about

making yourself stronger, improving yourself - and improving

them, too, at the same time! But you will only succeed so long as

you see them as necessary agents for your evolution."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov