Q. How is a person who is at the head of a business or some institution to keep the position of not resisting evil in the world? A. I have seen at the head of certain factories people who have won the heart of every worker in the factory. And another head of a factory against whom every worker in the factory was speaking. May be that this next head of the factory may make a greater profit than the other one. But at the same time in the end he will find that the first is more durable than the next. These manners of wisdom and tenderness cannot be made as principles for people to be restricted to follow. The place of a knife, a brush cannot take, and therefore everyone has to use every manner and action according to the situation. Nevertheless that thought of not resisting evil should be at the back of it.

Q. How can one manage with a person who is really bad? A. Yes, it is this, that if a person is really bad, that means that the whole surface has become bad. But still the depth cannot be bad. However bad a person, the depth cannot be bad. For goodness is life itself, and a person who is all bad cannot live. The very fact that he is living shows that there is a spark of goodness there. Besides, as there are various objects, there are various persons. Some show softness outside, hardness inside; some show hardness outside and softness inside. Some have good in the depth and evil on the surface, and some have evil in the depth and good on the surface. Because as many souls, so many different varieties there are.

Q. Is there a system to take away the bad? A. The system is understanding life more and more. It is to keep the love element alive, to try to keep a harmonious attitude as much as possible, and then to keep beauty before oneself. Humankind is always progressing, and in that progress there are passing phases.

Q. But I suppose that if it is with grownup people it is much more difficult? A. It is, but at the same time if one has the spirit that we are never grownup, that we have never closed our heart from learning, that whatever the age we are always ready to accept what is harmonious and beautiful. The idea is this, that when one thinks that, "What I think is right," and one finds arguments and reasons to make it right; and "What another person thinks is wrong," and one finds reasons to make it wrong, this person will always remain in the same place. But one who is ready to accept even from a child, if there is anything that one says that is wrong and one thinks, 'Yes, even the child says it, it is a profit for me to accept it." For God has not only spoken through His prophets, but He speaks through every person if we open our heart to listen to it. The difficulty is that we become teachers. If we kept ourselves a pupil.... Through our whole life we can keep ourselves a pupil, and the teaching will come all the time from within and without. As soon as we become teachers we close our heart from Him Who alone is our Teacher.

Q. If we want to be kind to someone, how can we prevent that person abusing of our kindness? A. Our part is to be kind. That person's part is to use it rightly. It is not our part to see that the other person makes the right use of it. If we shall think about it we shall forget our business.

Q. How can one help at the same time that person who is doing harm, who does not understand our kindness? A. Love is a conqueror, and in the end he will conquer. It is not only the person outside that love will conquer, but it will conquer the self, the one who loves, the conquering of which is the conquering of the Kingdom of God. The power of love is penetrating: nothing can resist it in the end. And by giving kindness we have not lost anything. It is an element which is never lessened, it is a treasure which is divine. When we see whether the person is worthy or unworthy, in that case we limit our love in a channel. But when we allow that feeling of kindness to flow, then it will develop into a continual flowing condition. And then kindness will work out its destiny without any intention on our part. It is something that one must learn one's whole life. God bless you.