law. Every
law you know is a good law. Every law
of nature, so-called, works for your good
and mine the moment we obey it. There
is no such thing as a bad law. What? you
ask if it is not a bad law that makes
fire burn me when I touch it? No. It's
a good law misused. All law is good law.
All law is part of one law, and that one
law is the law of good. Sometimes it is
called the law of love. But what does
love mean? It means good will, that's
all. you will good to the one you love.
You cannot express the idea of love any
better than that if you try for years.
But then---! Why, if the law of good, the law of love, is the one great law that includes all law, I can see why it is foolish to get mad. I can see why it is madness to get mad. It is going contrary to all law. No matter what my so-called provocation may be, it is just plain insanity to get mad. Why, it is ridiculous to get mad just because somebody else does, to defy the law just because somebody else does. It is just like putting one's hand on a hot stove because somebody else does. If I am up in an airplane and another passenger jumps out, I should be a plain imbecile if I jumped out too just to prove to him that he is wrong, to force him to admit that he is wrong, to convince him that he is a fool--on the way down.
We may as well make up our mind that we cannot break law. It does not break. If I try to break it, it breaks me. Getting mad is just as bad as jumping out of an airplane, and its results are just as inevitable. It always makes either a fool or a criminal of me.
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