other, and breathe together, and are one.
- The things ordained for you—teach yourself to be at one
with those. And the people who share them with you—treat
them with love.
With real love.- Implements, tools, equipment. If they do what they were
designed for, then they work. Even if the person who
designed them is miles away.
But with naturally occurring things, the force that designed
them is present within them and remains there. Which is why
we owe it special reverence, with the recognition that if you
live and act as it dictates, then everything in you is
intelligently ordered. Just as everything in the world is.
- You take things you don’t control and define them as
“good” or “bad.” And so of course when the “bad” things
happen, or the “good” ones don’t, you blame the gods and
feel hatred for the people responsible—or those you decide
to make responsible. Much of our bad behavior stems from
trying to apply those criteria. If we limited “good” and “bad”
to our own actions, we’d have no call to challenge God, or to
treat other people as enemies. - All of us are working on the same project. Some