"Why do you scorn others?
Can it be that you are that proud?
No matter how accomplished you are,
There are people ahead of you and behind you.
All beings on the path,
All victims of the same existence,
All with body, mind, and spirit.
No one is better than the next person.
Help others for all the times that you have been ignored.
Be kind to others, for all the times that you have been scorned."
While a minority of us might like to think of ourselves as victims, there is undoubtedly a particular set of shared challenges that go with the condition of being human. We certainly don't all experience all of them, or if we do, not all at the same time or in the same way; still, of what profit is it to be competitive and haughty? The more readily we recognize and act upon what is honestly shared, the more humble we just might be.
Can it be that you are that proud?
No matter how accomplished you are,
There are people ahead of you and behind you.
All beings on the path,
All victims of the same existence,
All with body, mind, and spirit.
No one is better than the next person.
Help others for all the times that you have been ignored.
Be kind to others, for all the times that you have been scorned."
While a minority of us might like to think of ourselves as victims, there is undoubtedly a particular set of shared challenges that go with the condition of being human. We certainly don't all experience all of them, or if we do, not all at the same time or in the same way; still, of what profit is it to be competitive and haughty? The more readily we recognize and act upon what is honestly shared, the more humble we just might be.
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