Such is the Law

Worry is like a cat chasing its tail—it never gets anywhere and at last drops exhausted within the tiny circle it has trod.

“Such is the Law which moves to righteousness,

Which none at last can turn aside or stay;

The heart of it is Love, the end of it

Is peace and consummation sweet. Obey.” —THE LIGHT OF ASIA.

To sympathize with others we must first understand them, and to understand them we must put away all personal preconceptions concerning them, and must see them as they are.

We must enter into their inner state and become one with them, looking through their mental eyes and comprehending the range of their experience. You cannot, of course, do this with a being whose wisdom and experience are greater than your own; nor can you do it with any if you regard yourself as being on a higher plane than others (for egotism and sympathy cannot dwell together), but you can practice it with all those who are involved in sins and sufferings from which you have successfully extricated yourself, and, though your sympathy cannot embrace and overshadow the man whose greatness is beyond you, yet you can place yourself in such an attitude towards him as to receive the protection of his larger sympathy and so make for yourself an easier way out of the sins and sufferings by which you are still enchained. James Allen (1864 – 1912) ~ Byways to Blessedness[1904]

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