Revaluation of Values...3
Giving something to somebody, helping anybody to obtain or do anything he wants, is gratifying the fictitious self of that person and affirming its power over him. Therefore so to do is to render him a disservice.
You can only render a service to somebody, and the only service you can render anybody, is to give him an opportunity of depriving himself of something, and of weakening the stranglehold of his fictitious self thereby.
In the first case the subject will thank you for rendering him a disservice, in the second case he will bear you a grudge for rendering him a service. Unless he happens to understand.
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If you make a sacrifice for somebody you are serving yourself and doing an injury to your victim. If you accept a sacrifice you are suffering an injury and conferring a benefit.
But on the plane of Reality there is nothing to make a sacrifice, and no sacrifice that can be made, for love and sacrifice are no longer two things, and there is nothing else.
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