Let the rich cease to despise the poor, and the poor to condemn the rich;
let the greedy learn how to give, and the lustful how to grow pure; let the
partisan cease from strife, and the uncharitable begin to forgive; let the
envious endeavor to rejoice with others, and the slanderers grow ashamed of
their conduct. Let men and women take this course, and, lo! the Golden Age
is at hand. He, therefore, who purifies his own heart is the world's
greatest benefactor.

Yet, though the world is, and will be for many ages to come, shut out from
that Age of Gold, which is the realization of selfless Love, you, if you
are willing, may enter it now, by rising above your selfish self; if you
will pass from prejudice, hatred, and condemnation, to gentle and forgiving
love.

Where hatred, dislike, and condemnation are, selfless Love does not abide.
It resides only in the heart that has ceased from all condemnation.

You say, "How can I love the drunkard, the hypocrite, the sneak, the
murderer? I am compelled to dislike and condemn such men." It is true you
cannot love such men _emotionally_, but when you say that you must perforce
dislike and condemn them you show that you are not acquainted with the
Great over-ruling Love; for it is possible to attain to such a state of
interior enlightenment as will enable you to perceive the train of causes
by which these men have become as they are, to enter into their intense
sufferings, and to know the certainty of their ultimate purification.
Possessed of such knowledge it will be utterly impossible for you any
longer to dislike or condemn them, and you will always think of them with
perfect calmness and deep compassion.

If you love people and speak of them with praise until they in some way