Never allow yourself to become involved in retaliation.

 Never allow yourself to become involved in retaliation.  This is how man creates negative karma.  Each time he arises to defend himself he puts himself, as you say, behind the eight-ball.   Self-defense is always a defense of the human ego, for the Christ of every man needs no defense—truth bears witness of itself.  In matters of race many have put themselves behind the eight-ball.  Evil dwells in all races.  And wherever racial differences are given power in this uninhibited age there is a strong possibility that violence and negative karma will accrue to the records of many lifestreams.    

                    -Chananda, for the Indian Council, Pearls of Wisdom 11:30

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  You must be a sun that is literally a ball of fire that you can unleash at any moment for any constructive purpose.    

            -Gautama Buddha:  12-31-1994 at Royal Teton Ranch, MT, Pearl 38:6