You can’t do a good deed with a selfish intention and still call it good.
Your inside needs to be lined up with the outside. That’s what makes for a pure heart. People can feel the difference between a pure heart and a selfish intention.
The same goes for the people around you.
You don’t need to sell your soul to someone who has done you a favour when they are simultaneously stabbing you in the back.
And the truth is… if you do think you need their “favours” it’s probably time to work on your faith.
The universe supports you, and it sets you up for progress and growth and it helps you to become the person you want to be. It will take you places you can’t imagine.
But you have to have faith in the process and trust that it’s taking you somewhere better.
Or you will keep allowing that knife to stab you in the back and think you need that persons “favour”. You don’t need their favour, the universe will help you, you just need to move past your resistance.