When does Resisting "Evil" Create More Evil?Fear (almost) never stops us or damages us. It is always resisted fear that stops us, fear that we're unwilling to feel and allow to flow through us. We treat fear as something bad, something not to have, something to hide from others, if not from ourselves. Fundamentally, fear is just energy, energy we can use to serve our desires and commitments, if we don't resist it. It is not divorce that creates such big problems and costs. It is our resistance to divorce, our reluctance to divorce, our making divorce wrong and bad, and thinking of ourselves as failures for getting a divorce (in situations when it is obviously the best solution for all) that creates almost all the costs associated with divorce. Most of the costs associated with illegal drug use come, not from the drug use itself, but out of our resistance to such drugs, out of making such drug use wrong and bad and illegal through "the war on drugs" and the criminalization of drug use, which creates and maintains an environment that fosters corruption, violence, and disrespect for government, as well as keeping the drug price high enough to ensure that the drug lords stay in business. It is not a broken heart that really damages us. It is the resistance to a broken heart that shuts us down. A fully broken heart is a heart more open for love than ever before. What are you resisting in your life? How is this resistance potentially creating even more damage than that which you are resisting? ? If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? -Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918- , novelist, Nobel laureate) Resisting the bad can be bad How often does resistance to the "the bad" cause more damage than "the bad" would ever cause if left alone? -Dwight GoldWinde Transcending judgment To transcend making wrong includes letting go of judging others for judging as well as judging yourself for judging. -Dwight GoldWinde Click here >> How to buy this book? For more essay(s) on courage and the right-wrong paradigm >> |
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