Rivalry and Maturity

No, you are not going to comment and prove the other is a despicable fake. You will walk away and concentrate on your mission of self-improvement. You have the free will to be morally what you want to be. You must keep your contempt in check, even with despicable cowards and phonies. They should not occupy your mind. After all, they are scums and dregs of society, rubbish and filth and garbage that inevitably appear after an event of human mass gathering.

Remember, there is strength in silence. Silence is the conservation of energy. Speech is the dissipation of energy. What you need to do is to stay connected with the master in you. Through him, you learn about the mastery of the art of living. A man must be the master of himself, of his emotions, of his feelings, of his desires and aversions. Silence, even under provocations, is the first step of self-mastery. After all, you have read the trash presented as "thoughts" of others. Every dog wants to bark. Every rooster wants to crow. Every human wants to say something, no matter what is said makes sense or not. The impulse to make one's presence known;to leave a mark, a scent; to assert oneself; to claim one's territory; to jostle for a place in the sun, is strong. However, stronger men of will turn their backs on all that and keep their mouths shut, first with a smile on their faces, but as time goes by, the smile fades away and slowly is replaced with impassivity and then serenity. Their mind is not rippled by behavior of lesser men, of monkeys and dogs. Their mind is flat and smooth like a lake in a windless early dawn when the sun just barely appears on the horizon. A pontificator who pontificates on everything is an ignoramus who carries a deep inferiority complex inside him. Speak only of what you really know. And only sparingly.

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