I recently overheard a woman talking to her friend. She was really upset at a third person, and she was hot. She was wishing she could just walk up to Third Person and give her a set-down she wouldn't soon forget...no, what she'd really like to do is let Third Person start talking to her and just turn and walk away with the Third in mid-sentence...no, what she'd really, really like to do....
I saw me back in the day talking to my bathroom mirror...and, who's kidding whom, scratch me and there's me today in any off minute.
That whole episode was karma aborning...the very roots of "bad business gets you bad business." And here's another kicker...Third Person may not be the source of that woman's woes when it comes back on her. It may very well come through a person she has "done nothing to." Karma doesn't care who or what you did it to...karma only knows you did it.
I pondered that whole scenario later, and I understood yet again the outcome of that payback mentality. It is not only achieving our ugly imagined wants that is bad business...just the thinking, just the want to, whips back and slaps us silly. That's how we get our toes stepped on "seemingly without provocation." That's the ugly/beautiful punchline.
We've got to clean up our thinking so that our doing is not self-driven. Self-driven is our ego looking for its reward.
God is our Self driver...we keep God-focused, other-focused, we don't have to wonder, worry or fret about our reward. Other-focused is its own reward...a.k.a., peace of mind.
Thank you.
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