whoever can love, is lucky

"It is a strange but simple secret of the worldly wisdom of all times that the smallest selfless dedication, every sympathy, every love makes us richer, while striving for property and power takes away our strengths and let us become poorer. The people in India knew that, and then the wise Greeks, and then Jesus and ever since thousands of wise people and poets, whose works survived time, while rich people and kings of their time were lost and forgotten. You may agree with Jesus or with Plato, with Schiller or with Spinoza, everywhere it is the ultimate wisdom, that neither power nor possession nor knowledge can bless your soul, but only love. Every selflessness, every sacrifice because of love, every practical pity, every self-relinquishing seems to be a giving away, depriving yourself, and is nevertheless the only way that leads forward and upward.î