Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or masteryβin morals, in art or in spiritualityβthe more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.
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