To define the word 'harm' in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which caused physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual damage to people.
Yet these instincts . . . often far exceed their natural function.
Whenever a human being becomes a battleground for the instincts, there can be no peace.
Such is the power of the instincts to overreach themselves.
For every time a person imposes his instincts unreasonably upon others, unhappiness follows.
Unreasonable fear that our instincts will not be satisfied leads us to covet the possessions of others, to lust for sex and power, to become angry when our instinctive demands are threatened, to be envious when the ambitions of others seem to be realized while ours are not.
Instincts restored to true purpose!
Once again, look at those dang words: battleground, unreasonable (twice, mind you), angry, threatened, envious, no peace, damage. What if I was given this option to start my day: you will spend all of your time waging an invisible war in an internal battleground, fueled by angry, threatened, envious emotions that threaten any possibility of peace. Sounds like a plan, a shitty plan, gotta be a better plan than that. And I love the idea of trying to impose my demands and will on others . . . and doing it because I perceive, sometimes correctly, often not, that others are doing better than I am. No shit! There are always going to be people out there who are on an easier track than I am.
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