"Agree with your adversary quickly" is tickling my brain right now...love your enemy, do right by those who misuse you...all those lifelines that our ego thinks of as high-flown sentiments.
I never really thought it through, but I suspect that in the back of my mind was the idea that if we do those things, we'll get love back...or gold. Some reward for heaven's sake. Like, we'll know that God and Hector loves us, we'll know that God and Gertrude accepts us. We'll live long and prosper.
What a surprise to realize there is no God and anything. God is. Everything.
Until we seek God, and God alone in whatever form God chooses, we'll get bubkes...and even lose that which we have.
There must be no object whatsoever except attaining the realization of the activity of [God], no praying even for our friends or neighbors or for the world. - "The Heart of Mysticism," by Joel Goldsmith, at p. 873
Thank you.
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