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Combat Evil Through Personal Transformation
It is important to remember that anything you can do to expand your awareness will automatically counter evil. Be gentle when you are tempted to be harsh. Pay attention when you are tempted to turn a blind eye. Accept that the negativity you are feeling belongs to you when you are tempted to blame someone else.
Personal transformation on this level is the highest way to combat evil. The more conscious you become, the more you come into balance. Once balanced, you can choose to reject destruction; your awareness expands beyond the immediate hurt to see that evolution is eternal and therefore eternally possible.
We would all agree that anger gives rise to many evil acts, not anger per se, but anger that has become trapped. If your awareness is open and free, anger flows through it. This applies both to rage generated inside yourself when you feel victimized, and anger that comes from outside, in the form of an attack.
Both are meant to leave when their job is done. Anger’s work is to alert your defense systems. Aggression and defense are part of the survival repertoire of almost every species that must compete to mate, find food, and occupy territory. Festering, it feeds on itself and eventually breaks out in violence.
Every living system that goes out of balance attempts to right itself. Despite all the talk about human beings being innately violent, aren’t we also innately gentle? The evidence for both is equally strong.
Adapted from The Deeper Wound: Recovering the Soul from Fear and Suffering, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2001).
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add your comment »dunlop has put it very warmly. own up to that which belongs to us.
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ahhhhhh good is seen from within. we choose to see it or not. amen to that stana. good is in everything depending on how it is seen. let go, let God
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i think we are all in real danger...if we don't focus on the good, and the real and thebeauty of the nature!
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i could not agree with you more! spoken from a ture heart.
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good and evil are one in the same. ying and yang. one would not be if the other was not. there is no true evil. without both we would not have a life journey. both are created to reach our inner journey. if people would stop seeing evil then they would not feel evil. can you forgive a rich drunk that killed your kids in a car accident? depends on the eyes you see it through. I try to look through christs eyes. the eyes that embrace all with love and understanding. evil is what is seen with the human eye. this world is on the journey it is suppose to be on. God will embrace us all.
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We are in real danger if we do not focus on real evil.
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We should really be talking about real evil. There are people on this Earth who are at the top in various aspects of societies that have literally, like Faust, agreed to give up eternal life for all of the worldly things they desire. Others in this group who represent real power behind the scenes even feel that they can only carry out their power plans that involve all of us in the future if they operate by evil itself. With their dark sides they are immoral, victimizing regular innocent people in a variety of different ways by different means. Also morality won't get them what they want or what they want more of.
The average person doesn't belive evil is anything like this. As a matter of fact they don't really understand & believe real evil for what it is. Just because they can't imagine being that way they feel nobody else can either, which is flawed thinking. It'll all catch up with them.
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Janine --You point to a recurrent issue in my spiritual work: doing "the work" when surrounded by or confronted by others who are not committed to doing the work. I have two friends who are of equal commitment but they live hundreds of miles away. I wish they lived closer but I am grateful to have them in my life.,,,and grateful for Skype as a low-cost way to keep in touch with them.
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Love this article. I will add this to my favorites. Thank you
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"Accept that the negativity you are feeling belongs to you when you are tempted to blame someone else." I feel this is a huge problem in todays society - blaming someone else for that which is in you and of you. When that is realized, peace can be seen and obtained.
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