Proverbs 24:9 Meaning The Schemes of Folly Are Sin

Every attack begins as a thought, and the only sin is the thought that separation is real, the small idea that the mind can gain by setting itself against another. Folly is nothing more sinister than that first turning away from love, and everything the ego builds rests on it.

The one who mocks becomes hateful to others because scorn is guilt turned outward, and a mind that condemns is only showing others the verdict it has already passed on itself. What repels them is their own accusation returning to them in another's face, until they are willing to see that the fault they feared was never real.

Scorner: the mind that has chosen the ego and flings its own guilt outward as contempt, meeting everywhere the condemnation it first pronounced on itself