“Others” are just a projection of mind.
What are “others” but what I imagine them to be? Every “other” is just a mirror of my own mind. So when I go to war with another for the sake of another I’m going to war with myself for the sake of myself.
Madness.
The only person I ever act on behalf of is myself because I and everyone else are the same thing, this one thing we all are at once. And the only sane thing to do on behalf of myself is to be loving to, with, and for, this thing I am, which is inextricably tied to everything else.
When I take pity on “others” or defend them, I divide my world (which is just a mirror of my own mind) into hero and pitied, hero and weak. I invent weaker “me’s” to fix and save when, in my true nature, I am already whole, already redeemed.
When I take pity on myself or defend myself, I divide my world (which is just a mirror of my own mind) into villain and pitied, villain and weak. I invent stronger “me’s” to take down a peg when, in my true nature, I am already whole, already redeemed.
There is nothing to be done but love what is.
The more heroic I make myself in the world the more I separate from my true nature and the weaker and less secure I feel.
I notice that the world’s most “powerful” people also seem to have the largest security details.
The only person who ever needs help in this world is me.
And the only help I ever need is my own love, which is all I’m feeling when I feel “your” love.
And to identify and believe the most self-loving thoughts is to discover the most self-loving actions. To discover the most self-loving actions is to discover the most “other”-loving actions. “What, of all the things I could say and do right now, would be most loving to me, knowing “I” am part of everything?” “What would make me feel most whole, most unified, most peaceful, most at one with myself - and therefore at one with everything?”
When I fully realize the truth of my inextricable love-worthiness and put that truth into action, I love the whole world and there is nothing to protect. No courage is required. Everything becomes peaceful. And because everything is peaceful, generosity is free to flow out of me (and right back into me through my projection of an “outside world”). I just know what to do and I do it - free of stress and fear and indignation.
What could be better for “others?”