No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.

As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You dont change. But when you understand it, it changes.

To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.