FAILURE

    Ever chasing a mirage of material bliss, only to become a prisoner to your own possessions.  Friends of convenience scatter with the winds, as you are left alone to serve this sentence, which ironically took so much effort to achieve.  Lost souls pace the floor, confined too the four walls of their own foolish desires, learning too late that which is truly significant.  Suddenly, you contemplate in the utter silence of your own humility, and in such silence, only truth can long survive.  A strange new image stares back from the mirror, for you are freed of the illusions that once obscured your very soul.  You were lost but now you are found, and at last, finally freed.

    Timeless wisdom will light the path to meekness, which will someday inherit the Earth.  Anger, hatred, and fear will melt into the darkness from whence they came.  You will cast no stones, as you are not without sin.  You will judge not, for you cannot bear to be judged.  You will treat others as you would wish to be treated, not as a gift to the world, but as a gift unto yourself.  Real success is attainable to all, for love is the only thing that man can truly achieve.