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In any case, in Vietnam it was the extraordinary power of nationalism, not communism, that brought the United States to its knees. To oppose legitimate nationalism is to do so at our peril.
The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace (1987)
If we attempt te deal with (human) evil by destroying it, we will also end up destroying ourselves, spiritually if not physcially. And we are likely to take some innocent people with us as well.
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil (1983)
I know no more accurate epithet for Satan than the Father of Lies.
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil (1983)
Evil is that force ... residing either inside or outside of human beings, that seeks to kill life or liveliness.
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil (1983)
Evil is revolting because it is dangerous. It will contaminate or otherwise destroy a person who remains too long in its presence.
One of the major dilemmas we face both as individuals and as a society is simplistic thinking — or the failure to think at all. It is not just a problem, it is the problem.
The Road Less Travelled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety (1997)
Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.
The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (1978)
You may remember that The Road Less Travelled opened with the sentence "Life is difficult." And to that great truth, I will now add another translation:
Life is complex.
Further Along The Road Less Travelled: The Unending Journey Toward Spiritual Growth (1993)
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
The Enlightened Savage : Using Primal Instincts for Personal & Business Success (2006)
There are a number of different theological models of evil ... This book will concern itself solely with the subject of human evil, and its primary focus will be on 'bad people'.
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil (1983)
I believe that the differences between those who are actively religious or spiritual and those who are not are generally not so much random as developmental.
The Road Less Travelled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety (1997)
If all the energy required to think seems troublesome, the lack of thinking causes far more trouble and conflict for ourselves as individuals and for the society in which we live.
The Road Less Travelled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety (1997)
I wrote of this in People of the Lie. Using My Lai as a case study, I demonstrated how evil at an institutional and group level occurs when there is a fragmentation of consciousness – and conscience.
The Road Less Travelled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety (1997)
Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? Do we want to teach our children to solve them?
The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (1978)
There are also, I believe, good addictions of a sort, and I have been blessed (or cursed) by one of them: an addiction to consciousness.
Further Along The Road Less Travelled: The Unending Journey Toward Spiritual Growth (1993)
Millions of Christians smugly sit around believing that they don't have to do anything because they've been redeemed, and they thereby contribute to that public apathy that is so poisonous.
But one of the best definitions for evil is that it is 'militant ignorance'. Militant unconsciousness.
The Vietnam War is one of the best examples I know of this militant ignorance on a grand scale.
Further Along The Road Less Travelled: The Unending Journey Toward Spiritual Growth (1993)
... We also need to become increasingly conscious to identify and relish what is good and beautiful in this life.
The Road Less Travelled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety (1997)
Evil can be thought of as the exercise of political power — that is, the imposition of one’s will upon others by overt or covert coercion in order to avoid extending oneself for the purpose of nurturing spiritual growth.
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil (1983)
Who in the hell is Satan? I don't know.
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil (1983)