Matthew 5:40-41 - Really now!

And if anyone would sue you and take your coat, 

let him have your cloak as well; 

and if anyone forces you to go one mile, 

go with him two miles.

Just suppose that

"inside your head there is a whole program, a set of demands about 

how the world should be, how you should be and what you should want.

If the demands are met, the computer allows you to be peaceful and happy. 

If they are not met, 

even though it be through no fault of yours, 

the computer generates negative emotions that cause you to suffer."

And suppose that

"you generally cope by expending more energy trying to rearrange the world 

around you so that the demands of your computer will be met."

And given a situation in which 

you react anxiously and negatively, suppose that

"the only reason you are not reacting calmly and happily is 

because your computer is stubbornly insisting that reality be reshaped 

to conform to its programming."

Then consider that

"once you have understood this truth and thereby stopped your computer from 

generating negative emotions, you may take any action you deem fit. 

But only after you have got rid of your emotional upsets. 

For then your action will spring from peace and love, not from the neurotic 
desire to appease your computer or to conform to its programming, 

or to get rid of the negative emotions it generates."

Now do you see how profound the wisdom of  Matthew 5:40-41?

"For it will have become evident to you that real oppression comes, 

not from people who fight you in court or from authority 

that subjects you to slave labor, but from your computer whose programming destroys your peace of mind the moment 

outside circumstances fail to conform to its demands.

It is from the oppression of your programming that you need to be liberated."

From The Way to Love