Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
Sometimes we have to prove to others we're strong even where we're not.
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.
Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.
It's very difficult to pretend you're throwing a car.
Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
You might think I'm bulletproof, but I'm not.
My so-called faith went up in flames Till I believed in all your lies, For the life of me I don't know why. They got you wrong , You're not that strong. I don't belong here!
We are not as strong as we think we are
We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.
I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.
