None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.
It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.
This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.