Trying to be “only good” is like trying to stand in sunlight without casting a shadow. The harder you try, the darker your shadow grows.

The idea of being a “good human” is comforting but incomplete.
It assumes that the human mind can be neatly divided into categories of good and evil, light and dark. But existence doesn’t work in black and white. Every quality we call good has its shadow.-love can become attachment, care can become control, confidence can turn into arrogance.

Trying to be “only good” is like trying to stand in sunlight without casting a shadow. The harder you try, the darker your shadow grows.
So a person obsessed with being good often becomes secretly repressed — smiling outwardly while boiling inwardly.

This is how the moral ego is born:
a self that identifies with virtue while unconsciously feeding on what it denies.

- The Birth of Violence

When the natural energies of the human mind — sexuality, power, desire, anger — are condemned and suppressed, they turn inward and fester. Over years, that energy mutates into something distorted.

This is one of the unseen roots of human violence.
A person who has never been allowed to look at their own darkness — to understand it, to hold it with awareness — eventually becomes a victim of it. They act unconsciously, possessed by forces they never learned to witness.

Rape, murder, cruelty ..these are not random outbursts of evil, but expressions of deep unconsciousness.
They are what happens when the mind becomes completely disconnected from awareness, when craving and aversion take over entirely.

That doesn’t mean such acts are to be excused, they must be stopped, punished, restrained. Society needs law. But at a deeper level, humanity needs understanding.
Because until we see how ignorance breeds violence, punishment alone will never heal us. It only continues the cycle of fear and hatred.

- Beyond Judgment

To see beyond good and evil does not mean to deny ethics — it means to act from clarity instead of conditioning.
On the surface, morality divides: “This is good, that is bad.”
But awareness unites: “All of this exists within the human mind.”

When you understand this, compassion arises — not as a virtue, but as a natural response.
You no longer hate the sinner, but you do not tolerate the sin either.
You simply see both as movements of consciousness at different stages of evolution.

Justice born from hatred creates more hatred.
Justice born from understanding restores balance.

- Awareness as the Only Cure

No ideology, no religion, no moral code can eliminate violence, because all of them operate on the surface.
They fight darkness by suppressing it, instead of bringing it to light.
But only awareness can dissolve darkness, because only awareness can see without judgment.

When a human being learns to observe their own anger, their own jealousy, their own lust — without acting on it or condemning it — that very observation purifies.
The energy of desire becomes creativity.
The fire of anger becomes strength.
The intensity of passion becomes love.

This transformation is what the Buddha called purification — and what the yogis called Samādhi.
It is the state where craving and aversion lose their grip, and the mind becomes still enough to see things as they are.
In that stillness, ego dissolves.
And when ego dissolves, the possibility of real harm disappears, because there is no “someone” left to harm another.

- From Goodness to Wholeness

True goodness doesn’t come from trying to be good.
It comes from being whole — from embracing both your light and your darkness with awareness.
A person who is whole doesn’t need morality to guide them. Their actions are guided by sensitivity, not rules.
They act rightly not because they must, but because they cannot do otherwise.

Such a person may never call themselves good — yet their very presence heals.

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