In Burma one finds Buddhists of a very wonderful kind. It is the only race which for centuries has believed that there is no religion that is not as good as their own. Imagine, today, when the followers of most religions look down upon the followers of another! These people say, "Whatever be the religion, Christian or Muslim or Jewish, it is not worse than ours. Perhaps it is better." They all had this same thought, and even today they still have this belief. That is something wonderful. But when a person says, "Nobody is better than I am", it is no democracy; it is sinking lower, because it means closing one's eyes to what is greater, higher, and better. If one cannot appreciate or see it one cannot rise to it. One can only rise towards that which one values and towards which one aspires.