THIRTEENTH MEETING
Self-fulfilment Through Overcoming Limitations
I. Envy, Its Narrowness and Blindness:
a. Every man serves me who does for me what I cannot do for myself:
1. Each one fills out my shortcomings.
b. Use, instead of coveting.
II. Self-regulation in Despite of Self:
a. The moral sense of beauty, an intellectual sense of completeness, makes us regulate and suppress our desires:
1. Hence we make laws which are substitutes for understanding love.
b. The substitutes necessary until love conquers, are:
1. Justice.
2. Honesty.
3. Duty.
4. Binding by promise.
5. Obedience.
c. Conventions, their changes and their convenience.
III. Some Virtues Changed by Love’s Demands:
a. Revenge, the first expression of Loyalty:
1. Our admiration for such expression in its own early time.
b. Pity, the developer of Feeling:
1. Degenerates into Weakness and Impotence.
2. Is an Insult:
α. A strong man does not pity himself. Should not pity other strong selves.
3. Strong Sympathy, and our common Working for the great Happiness, should replace pity.
c. Reverence for special people, with Fear:
1. Self-reverence means reverence for all selves.
2. Reverence the old—and the young, too.
3. The reverence with love replaces the reverence with fear.