The Golden Rule for Planet Savers

Do I love the people I want to help or save? 

If I do not love them, how can I help them? I cannot help them if I don't love them. 

Because if I don't love them I won't be able to forgive them for taking the bread that I've given them.

So if I want to help people or save the world in any way whatsoever the first thing I have to be able to do, is to love them. 

And if I don't love them, there is no point in trying to help them because I will not be able to forgive them for taking the bread.

You see, I am in the habit of using wealth, as in 'bread', as a poor substitute for love. I will give wealth, imagining it is love.

So the tendency will be for me to resent them or worse, exploit them, without being consciously aware of that action. 

I will resent them taking the bread, because it is earned and owned. If I have not managed to love them, if they take it, I will resent them for it. Or I will find a way to exploit them to get payback. 

But love has no concept of ownership or earnings, that constitutes, economic wealth. I've created the illusion that wealth is love, as an escape so that I can Be Seen as loving, without having to actually love. I want to Be Seen, to help, more than I want to love.

And this cannot in this universe, work.It can only reinforce a pathology. It can only contribute to the gradual crushing of that society. If, my activity is the general case among the people on the whole.

Reams of ideologies will crop up, some of them becoming permanent, with fancy ways of solving this imaginary problem. The left and the right are two basket cases in totality.

Can I see how charity, empathy, human rights have never worked in a thousand years? It's a wonder that I've never looked into this more authentically. Maybe theres a resistance. Maybe my ignorance is deliberate. Maybe at the bottom of it all, I am simply too selfish.

So I ask myself when I'm trying to save the world or the planet in any way whatsoever, I ask myself, do I love the people or the thing I'm trying to save - do I love them?

There's no reward for loving others. It's expected of me, as a first duty. There is no payback for love. Do I seriously think I should get a reward for giving love? That sounds like a contract, an exchange for profit. Will I be able to do it though - will I be able to love them prior to their saving?

And if I can't do it, if I cannot love them then, then I cannot help them. I may try. It will fail and cause them more harm in the end through my subsequent resentment and exploitation of them, for taking the bread. 

Before any of this though, I must look in the mirror and ask "can I love myself?" If I cannot love myself, so that I'm able to help myself, how can I possibly in this universe love and then help others?

All of this does not mean to say that I should abandon trying to help people. What it means is that I should start trying to love people first.

It's possible I may never succeed. That is OK. That I have tried at all is what matters. That I have tried at all, to love those I wish to save, before I try to save them. 

Starting with me. This is the Golden Rule - to love others, as I do myself. It is not to love others before myself. It is to love myself and others before I try to save them. 

Some people say "even the sinner can enter the kingdom on the day they die, so long as they repent". This is the wrong meaning. It means I can repent IMMEDIATELY, and enter. I do not need to wait and if I do...that gives my thought the opportunity to 'escape' - the chance to help first and maybe love later, and probably neither at all. A terrible mistake.

So I know if I can love others immediately, I will be saved.