I Want To Write My Random Thoughts And Feelings
Evil prospers not because good people do nothing, but because good people inadvertently compound evil by constantly trying to fight fire with fire, by trying to ward off darkness with even more darkness. Righteousness seems to imbue people with this sense of moral responsibility, that it's incumbent upon good people to eradicate evil whenever and wherever they see it.
But this just helps to make evil more inconspicuous and shadowy, as it fears and hates anything that can stand in its way; it's constantly afraid of being dethroned and uprooted, and because good people rally together with their pitchforks and torches trying to hunt it down, evil becomes more and more inventive with operating in secrecy (and also in plain sight).
You conquer evil by giving it the last thing it expects: love. Because that's all anybody ever really wants anyway, even those who are the most hateful and destructive. The reason people don't love evil is because people assume you need a good reason to love something and that you can only love things that are themselves lovable. There often isn't a good reason to love something, in fact... there is probably never a good reason to love something (at all). But I think it's unwise to look for reasons - because those reasons can always be shot down with "yeah, but..." arguments, and our minds love to shoot things down and explain them away. It doesn't matter what it is, or how good/bad it is, the mind always has some "other" explanation for it.
Love isn't logical. I don't even think it's possible to logically love something. Logic itself is just that thing we use to best explain our raging emotions - those things we say we can't control, those things that seemingly jump out of nowhere and surprise us. But how we feel is always a 100% accurate reading of what's really going on within us, if only we could switch off our minds and delve into them honestly.
...You have to love your enemies, because it's the only way of ever bridging the divide. If you fight your enemies, they'll fight you back (no exception). If you love your enemies, you give them something they can't fight, because love is totally defenceless and without an agenda (and deep down it's irresistible). Even if your enemies continue to hate and continue to fight, they'll eventually give in to the fact that they can't destroy love without at least destroying a part of themselves each time. Evil/darkness only knows how to perpetuate more of itself. It can't do anything else. Eventually, it will collapse in upon itself because there is never anything substantial that's holding it up anyway - nothing except pain and fear.
But if you remain unconditionally loving, you will forever be there for darkness to fall into and for it to be transformed as a result. Genuinely transformed. Not through force or through the might of armies, but through purity and true intent...
But this just helps to make evil more inconspicuous and shadowy, as it fears and hates anything that can stand in its way; it's constantly afraid of being dethroned and uprooted, and because good people rally together with their pitchforks and torches trying to hunt it down, evil becomes more and more inventive with operating in secrecy (and also in plain sight).
You conquer evil by giving it the last thing it expects: love. Because that's all anybody ever really wants anyway, even those who are the most hateful and destructive. The reason people don't love evil is because people assume you need a good reason to love something and that you can only love things that are themselves lovable. There often isn't a good reason to love something, in fact... there is probably never a good reason to love something (at all). But I think it's unwise to look for reasons - because those reasons can always be shot down with "yeah, but..." arguments, and our minds love to shoot things down and explain them away. It doesn't matter what it is, or how good/bad it is, the mind always has some "other" explanation for it.
Love isn't logical. I don't even think it's possible to logically love something. Logic itself is just that thing we use to best explain our raging emotions - those things we say we can't control, those things that seemingly jump out of nowhere and surprise us. But how we feel is always a 100% accurate reading of what's really going on within us, if only we could switch off our minds and delve into them honestly.
...You have to love your enemies, because it's the only way of ever bridging the divide. If you fight your enemies, they'll fight you back (no exception). If you love your enemies, you give them something they can't fight, because love is totally defenceless and without an agenda (and deep down it's irresistible). Even if your enemies continue to hate and continue to fight, they'll eventually give in to the fact that they can't destroy love without at least destroying a part of themselves each time. Evil/darkness only knows how to perpetuate more of itself. It can't do anything else. Eventually, it will collapse in upon itself because there is never anything substantial that's holding it up anyway - nothing except pain and fear.
But if you remain unconditionally loving, you will forever be there for darkness to fall into and for it to be transformed as a result. Genuinely transformed. Not through force or through the might of armies, but through purity and true intent...
31-35, M
