Life is a game of football. You are the ball and you are bound to be thrown and kicked around this side and that. How long have you to bear this treatment? Until the ball is filled with air. Deflate it, and no one will kick it again. The air that inflates it is the ego. Bliss sets in when we get rid of the ego.
-Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol.XIV., P.321/322.