Will Smith said, “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, ’cause hate in your heart will consume you, too.”

This is a truly wise and important quotation indeed. It nicely encapsulates the difficulty and the challenge of staying in divine alignment when encountering, with all too great a frequency, evildoers of all kinds who present bad examples and cause harm to many, and lower their vibration and capability to stand strong and to remain in alignment as an example to others, and a reward for themselves to have the best potential in accomplishing their life mission. Far too many are sidelined and taken out of the game by the harshness of life at the hands of others. When one is injured by an evildoer, there are many examples you have witnessed that would tempt you to fight fire with fire, to give back as good as you get, to make them suffer as they made you suffer, to give them a taste of their own medicine and to punish them for their wrongdoing. All of those choices are non-divine because they are a trap. It is very analogous to fighting the quicksand that would suck you under if you struggle against it, and then you will sink more rapidly and more certainly. The response to evil needs to be reaching to the divine for assistance, if only to help maintain one's equilibrium, and perhaps gain a little extra strength to work with and a little reassurance to help you stay calm and to help you dust yourself off and keep going with your life in spite of it all, no matter what has happened. There is always a way for you to recover, if only with divine assistance, depending on the severity of the harm you have received, but there must be enough alignment within and a desire for that to happen for us to give that support in enough measure to help you win the day. When you give in to thoughts of revenge, anger, resentment, and the holding of grudges, you put yourself at further risk, and that is what this quote points towards. In effect, in fighting fire with fire, you become the equivalent of your tormentor, whether or not they might be deserving, from your perspective, of being treated in like measure. In becoming a tormentor, a punishment for someone, even though that is seemingly warranted, you, in effect, are taking the law into your own hands and acting through a level of hatred that is non-divine and will, in fact, be a karmic mistake and incur a penalty, all of which will be on record and will launch in the future, energies reaching out to remind you of your transgression and cause a penalty for you to come your way, and it might grow over time from the depth of damage you may have launched in the past, seeking revenge, and acting on that impulse. There are far better choices. If you ask for healing and for the blessing of separation from your tormentor because it will allow you to move on and be free, that is a far better solution than to stay wedded to them through animosity that will fester and simmer and be rumbling, and might burst forth at some time in the future and get you into serious trouble, and will certainly cause the Law of Karma to visit you with like negativity. This it always does, it is the great leveler and there is no escaping it, so we are imparting to you the wisdom of knowing cause has effects and is guaranteed—any harm you cause will return to you regardless of the reason you launch it into motion. Even though you feel it is justified, it is still a misalignment and constitutes wrongdoing. There is a higher and better path for responding to troublemakers and perpetrators who would harm you. You can save yourself and there are situations where the lesser of evil might be to take their life if others will perish as well; but if you alone are at risk, it is far worse for you if you lower yourself to their level and commit a homicide or any other wrongdoing. You are immortal, after all, so there are truly no big problems, except as you create them. Turning against the divine and against yourself can create a horrific future if you let it, but if you are an innocent victim, even though your life might be snuffed out, the only consequence is you will go back to the heavenly realm and be in bliss for a time before choosing where and when your next adventure might be, to sally forth in a new lifetime incarnated as a human being or elsewhere, as you choose. We have said before, leaving here is not the greatest of penalties but a blessing to be celebrated. Hanging onto life unnecessarily is a penalty of one's own making and not truly appreciated that it could be a mistake. You are here for a purpose, and rightly so, but it would be tragic for you to increase your suffering and extend that consequence through making poor decisions that increase the karmic backlog of unhealed negativity you have had a hand in. This you can see to and avoid.