Rank and status do not represent power when surrounded by negativity.
I do not belong to any spiritual group or tradition. I am just interested in exploring what it means to live with open eyes. People in spiritual organizations also tend to get caught in ideas of how i...
(n.) State; condition; position of affairs.
Simplicity and humility, not power or status, will bring you joy and happiness.
your wealth and so called status can not earn real respect for you in the society , if you are characterless (have no purity).
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of val...
The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.
The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of...
Your wealth or status doesn't make you. Your kindness and character does.
Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.
As the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.
The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where ordinary life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.