2 results for (book:nome AND session:860 AND stemmed:evil)
1/16 (6%)
impulses
meditation
luckily
decisions
tiny
[... 13 paragraphs ...]
We are back, then, to the matter of the ideal and its actualization. When and how do your impulses affect the world? Again, what is the ideal, the good impulse, and why does it seem that your experience is so far from that ideal that it appears to be evil?
[... 1 paragraph ...]
2/28 (7%)
laws
ideals
criminals
avenues
impulses
[... 17 paragraphs ...]
On the one hand, they believe that the self is evil, and on the other they are convinced that the self should not be so. They react extravagantly. They often see society as the “enemy” of good. Many — not all, now — criminals possess the same characteristics you ascribe to heroes, except that the heroes have a means toward the expression of idealism, and specific avenues for that expression. And many criminals find such avenues cut off completely.
I do not want to romanticize criminals, or justify their actions. I do want to point out that few crimes are committed for “evil’s sake,” but in a distorted response to the failure of the actualization of a sensed ideal.
[... 8 paragraphs ...]