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"No creature is evil by nature."
An Introduction to Philosophy
(Jacques Maritain)
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"The capacity to overcome evil requires that one has perceived the Good-beyond-evil and molded oneself to its Image and nature."
The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle
(Karen L. King)
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"Oh, God, what's it all about? In my view, even blackness and despair has been designed into God's system. You may not completely believe or even remember this in this moment, but on some level, a part of you has actually created all of it." Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., 'The Soul and Quantum Physics'
Experiencing the Soul
(Eliot Jay Rosen, editor)
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"Good encompasses evil and transmutes it, showing its place in the total scheme of things."
The Way Things Are
(Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau)
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"According to the Jewish Kabbalah teachings, evil occurs when the function of discrimination or judgment (Gevurah) is separated from its natural complement – loving kindness or mercy (Hesed). The implication is that discriminative judgment must be integrated with kindness or compassion for this opposition to be transformed. A similar moral attitude is implied by the Buddhist teachings that advocate a balanced integration of discriminative wisdom and compassion."
The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience
(Ralph Metzner)
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“It is not a question of ‘killing’ or destroying evil, but rather of recognizing it, in order to reequilibrate it and transmute it into the good by harnessing its energies: one can say, of ultimately redeeming it.”
Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity
(Peter Roche deCoppens)
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"What is called good is perfect, and what is called bad is just as perfect.' Walt Whitman
Varieties of Religious Experience, The
(William James)
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"The word goes forth from soul to form. 'Both sides are one. There is no war, no difference and no isolation. The warring forces seem to war from the point at which you stand. Move on a pace. See truly with the opened eye of inner vision and you will find, not two but one; not war but peace; not isolation but a heart which rests upon the center. Thus shall the beauty of the Lord shine forth. The hour is now.'"
Esoteric Psychology II
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"The Hebrew Bible, including Daniel, the last-written of its twenty books, knows nothing of an evil principle independent of God. Satan in the Book of Job is an authorized accuser, sanctioned by Yahweh, and not a devil or a being who can operate of his own will, or for his own purposes."
Omens of Millennium
(Harold Bloom)
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"One of the toughest roots of all evil is unconsciousness, and I could wish that the saying of Jesus, 'Man, if thou knowest what thou doest, thou art blessed, but if thou knowest not, thou art accursed, and a transgressor of the law,' were still in the gospels….It might well be the motto for a new morality."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"Walk you the gentle way, and you will fear no evil and no shadows in the night."
A Course in Miracles
(Helen Schucman and William Thetford)
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"Seeking for the good in evil will, in time, transmute the evil into good."
Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, or Christian Occult Science
(Max Heindel)
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"Good and evil are the light and shade of the same thing."
Duncton Found
(William Horwood)
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"Darkness is dispelled by sending out bright beams of light."
Address to the Representatives of World Religions
(Pope John Paul II)
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"Many point their fingers critically at other people, not realizing that the pointed finger itself is the source of all evil. It is the concept of enemy that is our greatest enemy of all."
The Gift of Change, Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life
(Marianne Williamson)
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"Good is everywhere, ever abiding; and evil, so-called, is the ignorance in ourselves impelling us to violate the patterns for human growth that exist forever in the Infinite Mind."
Buddhism and Psychotherapy, The Healing of Heart Doctrine
(Manly P. Hall)
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"Evil has no positive nature; what we call evil is merely the lack of something that is good."
The City of God
(St. Augustine)
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"Evil originates in divine thought, which eliminates waste before emanating goodness. The demonic is rooted in the divine."
Essential Kabbalah, The Heart of Jewish Mysticism
(Daniel C. Matt)
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"Evil is after all only an impelling sense of difference, leading inevitably to separative action."
The Rays and The Initiations
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"In the long run, the good triumphs over the evil."
The City of God
(St. Augustine)
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"Chaos is a friend and a teacher and an integral part or prelude to new birth. Therefore, it is not to be feared or compulsively controlled."
A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity
(Matthew Fox)
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"We can see in the darkness if we will look through the eyes of God."
My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone
(Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)
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"Our job is not to set up a battleground to eradicate evil, but to search out its spark of holiness. Our task is not to destroy but to build, not to hate but to find a place of yielding, not to polarize but to discover the points of commonality so that we can work together. Learn this lesson, dear friends, it will serve you well."
God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism
(Rabbi David A. Cooper)
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"I feel sure in my bones there is no such thing as absolute evil, for evil is in essence only a dearth of good, a deficiency from certain viewpoints, a negative quality, a relative value....….Some might say a completely white page is purer and more perfect than one with many black marks upon it. But of course a pure page is also a blank page and worthless because it conveys no meaning."
Seven Mysteries of Life, An Exploration in Science and Philosophy
(Guy Murchie)
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"Unawareness is the root of all evil." Anonymous Egyptian monk
The Spirituality of Imperfection: Modern Wisdom from Classic Stories
(Ernest Kurtz & Katherine Ketcham)
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