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%ABSENCE LACK MISSING LOVE GIFT EXCHANGE INSECURITY+980610                                           
%ALIENATE ESTRANGE DEFENSIVE COERCION VIOLENCE EVIL+980610           
 %DARKNESS LIGHT IGNORANCE PREJUDICE CONFUSE PRISON+980610                                                                     
                                   %DOMINANCE 980610      
                                                                                                                               
     The essence of evil is alienation ---  the ABSENCE of                  
dialogue which is open, honest, gentle, balanced, gracious                                                                  
and  on-going.    In the ABSENCE of such essential aspects                  
of   integrative   living   --- people   and   communities                                                                
disintegrate  through  mis-guided efforts to overcome evil                                
regarded as  a pernicious force which must be defeated. In                                 
the  ABSENCE of light,  people walk in darkness  and  make                                                                    
many mistakes ---  losing touch with each other and losing               
touch  with  all  that  is  essential  to  meaningful  and                  
satisfying lives.                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                               
     Darkness is the ABSENCE of  light.  Darkness is not a                                                                     
pernicious force which must be defeated.  Darkness  cannot                                                                     
be   overcome   through  efforts  to  dominate,    defeat,                                
overwhelm,  destroy, coerce, . . .      A  tiny candle can                                                                     
overcome  darkness  by gently giving light  out  into  the  
empty darkness.   A child can overcome evil by giving love                                       
gently, simply and without computing the benefits.                                                                             
                                                                                                                               
     People  who seek to overcome evil through efforts  to                                
dominate,  defeat, overwhelm, destroy,  coerce . . . . are                                                     
people who thereby engender more and more alienation which                                        
is the essence of evil.  They are blind and/or walk in the                  
darkness  of the alienation which they  engender.     They                                        
lack  LOVE --- and need to acknowledge that what they lack                 
is  LOVE.     They cannot recognize LOVE and the power  of                                           
LOVE because they lack  LOVE.     They  seek to substitute                          
dominance  for  what  they lack ---  and in  the  darkness                                                     
cannot  see how futile dominance is.   Yet they  fear  the                                               
light of LOVE --- because it would reveal the futility  of                          
collusive games  of  mutual  self-deception --- which  are 
essential to the appearance of the propriety of dominance.                  
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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