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True expansion of self-identity comes not with an increasing number of possessions, nor with power over great numbers of people, but with growing sympathy and understanding. Such expansion means broadening one’s identity with others, including their needs in one’s own needs instead of trying to force everything and everybody into an orbit around own’s own little ego.
— Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters), “Hope for a Better World: The Cooperative Community Way” (2002)