As I hear Newt Gingrich imperiously make insinuations about making war on Iran, I am reminded that arrogance leads ultimately to disaster. Arrogance is based in a refusal to learn, truly learn, from life's experience. A refusal to understand and accept responsibility for life's failures, as well as successes, leads to delusional thinking. The grandiosity of the politician and the entitlement of the aristocrat are based in delusions, not mental health. All human beings lose everything in the end. A quest for immortality or infallibility is doomed to failure from the beginning. All we have is the now. All we can hope for ultimately is the love, internal peace and happiness we can develop with practice. In this, we are all equal.
As I hear Newt Gingrich imperiously make insinuations about making war on Iran, I am reminded that arrogance leads ultimately to disaster. Arrogance is based in a refusal to learn, truly learn, from life's experience. A refusal to understand and accept responsibility for life's failures, as well as successes, leads to delusional thinking. The grandiosity of the politician and the entitlement of the aristocrat are based in delusions, not mental health. All human beings lose everything in the end. A quest for immortality or infallibility is doomed to failure from the beginning. All we have is the now. All we can hope for ultimately is the love, internal peace and happiness we can develop with practice. In this, we are all equal. 
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