These two rules are by which I grew up. Do not kill
or injure your neighbor, for it is not him you injure or kill, you injure
yourself. Do not wrong or hate your neighbor, for it is not him that you
wrong, you wrong yourself. Meneto, the Great Mother, the Supreme Being, loves
him also as She loves you.
Alford
Wilson
It
is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and
unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the
hours that might have been worth while. But with the alcoholic, whose hope is
the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of
resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal. For when harboring
such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. The
insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to
die.
Big
Book pg. 66
We
might next ask ourselves what we mean when we say that we harmed
other people. What kinds of "harm" do people do one another, anyway?
To define the word "harm" in a practical way, we might call it the
result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or
spiritual damage to people. If our tempers are consistently bad, we arouse anger
in others. If we lie or cheat, we deprive others not only of their worldly
goods, but of their emotional security and peace of mind.
Twelve
Steps & Twelve Traditions pg. 80
Great
Spirit free us from judging and hurting others.