It is not so easy to be good. What are you but mere machines
until you are free?
Should you be proud because you are good? Certainly not.
You are good because you cannot help it.
Another is bad because he cannot help
it. If you were in his position, who knows what you would have been.
The woman
in the street, or the thief in the jail, is the Christ that is being sacrificed
that you may be a good man.
Such is the law of balance.
All the thieves and the
murderers, all the unjust, the weakest, the wickedest, the devils, they are all
my Christ!
I owe a worship to the God Christ and to the demon Christ! That is
my doctrine, I cannot help it.
My salutation goes to the feet of the good, the
saintly, and to the feet of the wicked and the devilish!
- Swami Vivekananda, Talk in Los Angeles
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