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Who would defend himself unless he thought he were attacked, that the attack were real, and that his own defense could save himself? And herein lies the folly of defense; it gives illusions full reality, and then attempts to handle them as real. It adds illusions to illusions, thus making correction doubly difficult. And it is this you do when you attempt to plan the future, activate the past, or organize the present as you wish.
You operate from the belief you must protect yourself from what is happening because it must contain what threatens you. A sense of threat is an acknowledgment of an inherent weakness; a belief that there is danger which has power to call on you to make appropriate defense. The world is based on this insane belief. And all its structures, all its thoughts and doubts, its penalties and heavy armaments, its legal definitions and its codes, its ethics and its leaders and its gods, all serve but to preserve its sense of threat. For no one walks the world in armature but must have terror striking at his heart.
Broadcasting in total the unity and singleness
of purpose of the universe.
Exchange at your peril.
You always lose by gaining.
You keep trying to get the better of yourself.
All exchange degrades –
An exchange that both parties express as fair and equitable is one in which each party feels that he has received maximum “Best of the Deal.”
Exchange establishes and maintains proof of limitation. What establishes the limited consciousness more emphatically than the expectation of return compensation for something given.
