"Error is never a person. It is never a thing. It is never a condition. And so never must we handle or take into our thought a person, a thing or a condition. It is true, error always appears as a person or a condition and that is what has fooled the spiritual workers of the world, that error always appears as a person or a condition or a thing. And immediately there is aroused in the individual a rebellion, a resentment or a battle against the person, the place, the circumstance or the condition, and the war is lost.
No person on earth or group of people are our enemies. No sin and no disease is our opponent or antagonist. The longer you fight a person, a disease, a sin or a condition, the longer you will be embroiled in what is called `this world'.
Now, you may walk out the door and trip on something that has no right to be
there and you may blame it on that thing being there or the person or the animal that placed it there, and thereby you lose your demonstration of harmony because it had nothing to do with that person, that animal, that thing.
In the same way, there may be some individual, or group of individuals, standing between you and your harmony. And you are trying to treat them, or treat for them, or treat that something be done about them. In other words, you are in an antagonism, in resentment, in rebellion against them, and you are directing your energies toward overcoming them or removing them, or bringing them into harmony and thereby losing your demonstration." ~Joel