ng is to be gained by it, everything is to be lost. By sending
love for hatred you will be able so to neutralize it that it will not
only have no effect upon you, but will not be able even to reach you.
But more than this, you will by this course sooner or later be able
literally to transmute the enemy into the friend. Meet hatred with
hatred and you degrade yourself. Meet hatred with love and you elevate
not only yourself but also the one who bears you hatred.

The Persian sage has said, "Always meet petulance with gentleness, and
perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even an elephant by
a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness. Opposition to peace is
sin." The Buddhist says, "If a man foolishly does me wrong I will
return him the protection of my ungrudging love. The more evil comes
from him the more good shall go from me." "The wise man avenges
injuries by benefits," says the Chinese. "Return good for evil,
overcome anger by love; hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love,"
says the Hindu.

The truly wise man or woman will recognize no one as an enemy.
Occasionally we hear the expression, "Never mind; I'll get even with
him." Will you? And how will you do it? You can do it in one of two
ways. You can, as you have in mind, deal with him as he deals, or
apparently deals, with you,--pay him, as we say, in his own coin. If
you do this you will get even with him by sinking yourself to his
level, and both of you will suffer by it. Or, you can show yourself
the larger, you can send him love for hatred, kindness for
ill-treatment, and so get even with him by raising him to the higher
level. But remember that you can never help another without by that
very act helping yourself; and if forgetful of self, then in most all
cases the value to you is greater than the service you render another.
If you are ready to treat him as he treats you, then you show clearly
that there is in you that which draws the hatred and ill-treatment to
you; you deserve what you are getting and should not complain, nor
would you complain if you were wise. By following the other course you
most effectually accomplish your purpose,--you gain a victory for
yourself, and at the same time you do a great service for him, for
which it is evident he stands greatly in need.

Thus you may become his saviour. He in turn may become the saviour of
other error-making, and consequently care-encumbered men and women.
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