Agony, Joy & "Terrible Love"

[Sacred Fool]

I've often wondered how this jives with the whole "you get what you give" routine.

Interesting point.  It strikes me that the "you get what you give" idea tends to refer to lateral affairs of giving and receiving, not a kind of 3 dimensional chess.  That is, when a beneficent one receives negativity on the lateral plane, it also is fully capable of tuning into other planes of love and beauty, and receiving those vibrations as well.  When one is committed to holding up one's candle to the blinding darkness, one should not be surprised to find darkness staring back.  But if an entity is energetically supple, it can vibrate its being, not merely in response to the narrow band of despair or pain, etc., but also to the loving frequencies of its deeper nature.