When your path is ridiculed for not being selfish enough...

" To be thought impractical or inane because you lack the stamina for bitterness and feel too weary to carry on without love - that is just one more hill you will need to climb to reach yourself."

"When your way is ridiculed as foolish for not being selfish enough,when your failure to hate is regarded as just that - a failure ; when you are looked at as odd, weird because you want an end to the cycle of reciprocal acrimony, that is the moment you need to persist with yourself the most."


"When your strength and your faith in your path seems to give in, that is the time when you will need these two assets the most: faith in your path and the strength to keep walking on it. "

The trick, my child, is to keep faith. When your way is ridiculed as foolish for not being selfish enough,when your failure to hate is regarded as just that - a failure ; when you are looked at as odd, weird because you want an end to the cycle of reciprocal acrimony, the terrifying intensity of cycle of hate, when you are thought impractical or inane because you lack the stamina for bitterness and feel too weary to carry on without forgiveness and love - when you feel stupid yourself for not living life as wisely as everyone around you manages so easily,when your strength and your faith in your own path seems to give in, that, my son,is the time when you will need these two assets the most: faith in your path and the strength to keep walking on that path. There is more to happiness than just this, but if you are able to do this, consider that 'not bad' for a start .Your failure to act as the logic and laws of reciprocal evil demand, your failure to see that unsolicited goodness or unwarranted piety will appear either too naive or too clever to eyes accustomed seeing tooth for a tooth and an eye for eye. You may be told at least to be "careful" with your ways. When all this is being said to and about you, that, my son, is just the time to keep faith, to continue to refuse to be calculating........."" ( Interrupted )