Offer love and enlightment. But if the service was rendered, and, even so, the wickedness of others comes after you, in person, to attack you, it is your duty to defend yourself, or you will be stimulating the wickedness in others, by the vain and hypocritical apprehension of being disliked. And, if you deepen the analysis, you will notice that the fair and honest defense, without the worry of performing socially pleasant roles, is one of the most excellent forms of providing love and enlightment to the neediest of creatures: the one who suffered the fall in free hostility, by the unfortunate projection of his intimate misfortunes.
Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar and Spiritual Friends.
Danbury, CT, USA, November 11, 2012.