Through the ancient law of retaliation, my enemy and I descend into each others lie, a spiral of never-ending violence, based on the delusion that my act of revenge is a form of "justice," while the enemy's is a crime.
A Palestinian Jew named Issa once offered a new law. He said, "You have heard, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, but I say to you, do not resist the evil one.... love your enemy."
Our minds are terrified by his teaching, inventing a thousand logical reasons to reject it; for his words reverberate at such a high frequency, they have never yet taken root in the human heart. But they will.
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