As long as peoples’ interests coincide, they can generally work together in harmony: one will usually attempt to ingratiate himself with the other. But when interests conflict, suddenly one turns on the other with hatred, antagonism, and malice. Such things happen when people are completely controlled by the things of the world and strive to satisfy only their own egoistic, narrow aims. People who understand the truth about the nature of all things neither think nor act in this egoistic way, since they see everything from a high, all-encompassing standpoint enabling them to fuse their own interests with those of everyone else. In a society composed of such people there would be no fighting, no discord, no distrust, and no suspicion because everyone would know the joy of union with his fellow human beings.