or
courage; deceit for truthfulness; ill-health for vitality;
helplessness for helpfulness. Even as a man is more manly when he
spares the nesting birds where formerly he ruthlessly destroyed; when
he unites protection with bravery; when he knows sympathy from
weakness; when he combines sentiment with principle; and gentleness
with vigor.

No mortal can by any possibility break the laws of God. Therefore you
are not to try to enforce your ideas of morality upon others. Who has
constituted you book-keeper for the universe? You are to concern
yourself with establishing happiness upon this earth.

You are to see to it that your love is big and broad enough;
all-inclusive enough to wish to see every one happy from your
immediate family to your far-off neighbor in Central Africa. You need
not worry about whether they break the moral code as you see it. You
are to render love and service to this world with all your heart and
all your power; if you do this, you will reach the goal of your
desires.

No mortal can by any other method than love and the service that is
rendered through love seek and find the "Holy Grail," which is to say
the bliss of spiritual union with his Beloved. Therefore to fly from
the responsibilities and the environment in which you are, without
regard to the welfare of others, is to defeat your own quest; neither
do we claim that you should under all circumstances remain chained to
a post like an unwilling captive, poisoning your mind with resentment
and hatred.

There is no one formula which fits all cases--other than that given in
love and service. The Golden Rule which tells us to do unto others as
we would have them do unto us, has another side to its shield, and it
may read "Do not permit others to do unto you what you would not do to
them." If you seek freedom from a specific environment from no other
motive than personal selfishness, you may be doing yourself an
injury; but if you are also doing an injury to others by remaining,
then you are doubly mistaken in your course.

The way of attainment is not easy, although the formula is simple; it
may be briefly but concisely summed up in the vital and important word
"unselfishness." "Not mine but thine also," is the watchword of the
wise in love. Not possession of the Beloved One, but union with him or
her. There is just one big world of difference between these two
points of view. More than that, there is the difference of Heaven and
Hell.