<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul... > {{Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism.}} {{The dark war-consciousness and pride have seized upon the weak, with great cynicisms and glib, soulless intellects, that grind away like robotic gears at what they despise and can never understand.}} {{Kindness is seen as weakness and intelligence worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch.}} {{There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.}} {{Kindness is the supreme intelligence.}} {{Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.}} {{If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.}} {{When we become acquainted with any person on a human level, even a great enemy, we begin to see that no person is really so different from ourselves.}} {{Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.}} **Source:** [[books/Voice of Reason Book (2009-2012)|Voice of Reason]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->