“For centuries you have been taught that love-sponsored action arises out of the choice to be, do and have whatever produces the highest good for another.
Yet I tell you this: the highest choice is that which produces the highest good for you.
As with all profound spiritual truth, this statement opens itself to immediate misinterpretation. The mystery clears a bit the moment one decides what is the highest ‘good’ one could do for oneself. And when the absolute highest choice is made, the mystery dissolves, the circle completes itself, and the highest good for you becomes the highest good for another.
It may take lifetimes to understand this — and even more lifetimes to implement– for this truth revolves around an even greater one: What you do for your Self, you do for another. What you do for another, you do for Self.
This is because you and the other are one. And this is because … There is naught but You.
All the Masters who have walked your planet have taught this. (‘Verily, verily, I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me.’) Yet this has remained for most people merely a grand esoteric truth, with little practical application. In fact, it is the most practically applicable ‘esoteric’ truth of all time.
It is important in relationships to remember this truth, for without it relationships will be very difficult.”
Neale Donald Walsch, “Conversations With God, Book 1,” p.130-131.
