Commentary by " A Life Lived":
“It is better to pay than receive from the vain,
for such favors demand ten times their cost.”
When a person says,
'I will not allow you to take the best of me, if you are crooked I will show you ten times more crookedness,'
then he is clever.
But when a person says,
'Yes, I understand you, you need not play that game with me, let me alone,'
he is wise.
When a person does not know the crookedness of the other person
and so allows him to take the best of him, he is a fool.
But when one sees clearly the roguery and crookedness of another person and yet allows him to take the best, he is the(w)holy man, he is Beyond the regions of humanity, he is beginning to climb the angelic planes, he sees all things, understands all things and tolerates all things.
The mystics talk about the innocence of Jesus, and WE try to follow it as an example.
This innocence is the same, and revelation comes to that person who sees all the falsehood and treachery of human nature and pities instead of accusing, and forgives because he has reached to that height that no falsehood, roguery, deceit or treachery of an ordinary human being can touch him -- he is above it.
~~~ ( previously unpublished)
~~~ It is better to pay than receive from the vain, for such favors demand ten times their cost.
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