Reb Menachem Mendel of Kotzk said, If you are yourself because someone else is your ideal, than you and they are neither yourselves, but if you and they have individual identities, then you and they are both yourselves
By zevi770 · February 11, 2013
It seems to me, we actually create visa vie identities!
No where is this more evident then in Europe where the thousand + years of wars etc. created these visa vie identities, so the French see themselves better than the Germans who see themselves better then the French!
The goal is never to be greater, rather to be friendly with another, in fact the need to be greater invariably comes from low self-esteem! Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom – let your email find you!