The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant. One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing.

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I think we all know we should pity the ignorant; we all know that they need our help and our compassion and love and care and mercy and you name it. We all know, right? But what we don’t realize is how much we can take from them. We think that we know it all, but we don’t. We think that we won’t be able to learn anything from them, but we will. And this is the best part: because of our ignorance, they will need to teach us.

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