Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Since we spoke of Joel S. Goldsmith I thought this was pertinent to this subject of reality - plus it shows to some a bit of what Mr. Goldsmith spoke about...any book of his is worth reading...

"Now let us be very clear on one point: We cannot harm anybody, and nobody can harm us.
No one can injure us, but we injure ourselves by a violation of the law of love.
The penalty is always upon the one who is doing the evil, never upon the one to whom it is done. The injustice we do to another reacts upon ourselves; the theft from another robs ourselves.
The law of love makes it inevitable that the person who seems to have been harmed is really blessed.
He has a greater opportunity to rise than ever before, and usually some greater benefit comes to him than he had ever dreamed possible; whereas the perpetrator of the evil deed is haunted by memories until that day comes when he can forgive himself.

The whole proof that this is true is in the one word "Self."
God is our Selfhood.
God is my Selfhood and God is your Selfhood.
God constitutes my being, for God is my life, my Soul, my spirit, my mind, and my activity.
God is my Self. That Self is the only Self there is—my Self and your Self.
If I rob your Self, whom am I robbing?
My Self.
If I lie about your Self, about whom am I lying?
My Self.
If I cheat your Self, whom do I cheat?
My Self.
There is only one Self, and that which I do to another, I do to my Self."