The Moral Vision
A Shaft of Light
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gathering. Curious, and for once drawn out of
himself, he approached the gathering of people and
began to listen to the speaker. He was suddenly
struck by what he was saying: “Think well before
taking revenge, for you too shall suffer the
vengeance of others.” It was as if a shaft of bright
light had suddenly penetrated his mind and with
each example that the speaker gave to drive home
his point, he felt himself turn into a new person. He
decided there and then to give up his negative way
of thinking, in fact, to forget the whole sorry
episode, and to devote his time and energy to his
family and his business. The full realization had
come to him that it was on himself that he had
inflicted suffering and not on his enemy, and that it
was best to leave such matters to God. In beginning
to think in this way, he found that; bit-by-bit, he
was once again able to make a constructive
approach to things and it was not long before he
became more successful than he had ever been. In
pursuing positive ends he had also attained peace
of mind, and that, for him, had been the most
important thing of all.
