But wait. What about joy and love? Does this mean you shouldn’t rejoice or love, but always be in balance?
I'm not imposing on you or others what should or shouldn't be done. I'm explaining the mechanisms. What you call love has many shades—from simple sensuality to the heroism of self-sacrifice. Yes, someone who sacrifices something to another gives a tremendous amount of energy to that person. And that is their choice. And there is always someone who accepts this sacrifice and receives this immense energy. And then it's up to them to decide what to do with the energy they've received: keep it within themselves, accumulate it and not pass it on, or transfer it to others. And this, too, is a significant choice.
If you receive the energy of gratitude, joy, and self-sacrifice, you can pass it on, balancing your energetic debts. You are responsible for the quality of that transmission, participating in this chain. If you've received negative energies, there's also a choice to be made. You can pass it on, as many of you do. But if you add your own shades, your own judgments, that energy becomes yours, colored by you. And then you enter your zone of responsibility.
If you simply let this energy pass through you like a clear glass, you won't be responsible for it. It will be drawn, by the law of correspondence, to where it's "expected," so to speak. And you are taught to be such clear "glasses," allowing energies to pass through, to be empty, to be calm, not to take on negative energies. But if you are developed to a higher level and can not only accept but also change and transmute energies within yourself, then you can purify this negative energy and transform it into the energy of love and gratitude, and also pass it on for further interaction.
The example you gave—is Christ, who had this great power to transform negative energies. He did not take your sins upon himself, as is commonly believed, but instead transformed the massive layers of negative energy accumulated by humanity, passing them through himself, and manifested them in your world in their pure, original divine form, shining with the fire of purification. In this way, he cleansed the karma of the planet and the karma of humanity—neutralizing the connections and pathways of accumulated negative energy—and freed you from the burden of receiving and processing that energy. Because in the quantum world, everything is connected, and nothing disappears. Because everything you send into the world will return to you sooner or later, because it is yours.