37) 'To do unto others as we would have ourselves be done by' is advice that is difficult to disagree with. Perhaps we can start by refraining from heaping scorn and ridicule on those we consider to be less intellectually agile than we ourselves are.
38) We can only understand and know what God is in those rare moments when we are completely free of egoism.
39) It is extraordinary that we delude ourselves into thinking we are qualified to comment on how to resolve the conflicts in the outside world when we cannot even resolve the conflicts raging inside ourselves.
40) 'I and my Father are one'. What do these words mean? Not literally, but allegorically or psychologically? Usually we are not one but many, a whole range of moods and reactions which exhibit contradictions and inconsistencies which others can see in us far more easily than we ourselves can. Perhaps 'I and my Father are one' when 'I' am able to act and speak free of inconsistencies and contradictions and according to an Objective Conscience.
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