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Ω 1Our task is not to create new centers, to build up larger out of smaller. Just the opposite: to intensify what is already there. The person in front of you—lost, confused, over-busy, worried, controlling, doing evil or good, victimized: in whatever state we find him or her—asks of us to intensify, intensify the life of which he or she is part and bringing into the world. When we work here, the world grows by at least the amount of the touch of our hand. It grows in the direction of unifying, gathering, meeting: it grows not in separation but in love. It intensifies what was already there and what will endure. Little pieces will always be little pieces, but the whole grows more whole.

:- Doug.

Is evil personal as G*d is? Has evil a me aspect? Yes it is something I can picture myself doing; indeed it is a capability of all humans. Has it a we aspect? Here is more question: Do we act in concert with it, or does it more possess us? Has evil an aim, does it mean me? No, it does not. Evil means you, the victim, even as it burns me with its fire. Evil therefore is not something which has personality and is not properly personified; it is something a person does, not the person’s essence. Evil is not a force with a mission. Evil is more a bent, a twisting of conduct and mind—hand and head and often heart. We should then punish the deed, lift up the person.

:- Doug.

I bow to the G*d arising up in you.

:- Doug.