when you call an entire person good or bad, this allows the worst among us to win because all that has to happen is the classification of one attribute as the absolute worst thing to ever happen to humanity and then your black and white thinking will be used against you because then the whole person is deemed bad. and we no likey bad people, they deserve bad things, right?
don't fall for this. no one is all good or all bad.
strive to see the humanity in others.
#thoughtstr .
Sometimes it's good to be bad 😉
and this is when we call upon those perspectives within us that can be 😂 because they are most def there!! 🤙
"The line separating good from evil goes through the heart of every man." -- Solzhenitsyn
Love this. Thank you for sharing. So succinct.
Here's the fuller quote:
>If only it were all so simple! 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?
And another, similar one:
>It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how a human being becomes evil and how good…Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains… an unuprooted small corner of evil.
Both quotes are from his book Gulag Archipelago
Very moving. I will sit with these words in contemplation. Thank you.
To understand our shadow and to know that if we were placed in a situation wherein you had a choice to do "good" or "bad" to not always assume that you would do the "good" thing, or make the "heroic" choice. There are dark parts in all of us, and those who seek to control us know this. It is why they use hate, anger, and nihilism to propogate their message.
