When we strategically align to make ourselves distinct from our peers it leads to almost irreversible consequences for our spiritual community. It is essential for the success of our communities that each and every one of us make a choice between our personal vanity and deep, long-lasting relationships. This choice isn’t as straightforward as we may imagine. Due to the weeds in the heart of duplicity, desire for adoration and self-importance we can develop the desire to help our community grow on the condition that we are able to enjoy our personal fame in the process. The mind somehow bewilders the intelligence to lose sight of the simple fact that if you're genuinely spiritually advanced, you will naturally be glorified as a consequence of your good qualities, you do not need to strategically establish your position. The irony is, one of the prerequisites to becoming spiritually advanced is that one would have already renounced the desire to be glorified. We c...