“When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.” John 6:15

You are requested to love your neighbours as yourself. It is in fact a commandment. Love as a commandment.

Your neighbours are all sorts of people, just as you are one sort of a person. They are all decent people, only you and they do not necessarily subscribe to the same canons of decency.

Loving your neighbour therefore requires some techniques. Some neighbours do not mind to generate and carry about false rumours about you and other people. The less you allow them to know about you, the less their opportunity to sin against you.

Some neighbours are afflicted by bouts of jealousy. A little decent distance between your success and their awareness of their inadequacies would reduce the frequency of their bouts and expose you to less danger.

Some neighbours like to get an audience to witness their marital quarrels. They are looking for somebody to blame other than themselves. If you are not there, can you be misquoted?

The advice is not that you should run away from your neighbours and be a recluse or be afraid to mix with other people. The advice is that your mixing should be moderate and that you should study your neighbours early in order to determine which type of mixing will be profitable for everybody.

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