Winter solstice moon

"good" and "evil" play a role in all our lives on a daily basis.

Our growth from infancy to adulthood usually helps to define our internalization of these two concepts. Family, religion, friends and the culture we live in form our divisions and help us maneuver through the realms of daily life.

We knock up against "good" and "evil" daily.

But what do these terms really mean?

Some philosophers claim that "evil" is based upon ignorance of truth and that
"good" is the harmony of love, friendship, the ordered human soul of virtues, a just political community and the right relation to the Divine and to Nature.

Some also claim that "evil" is the taking advantage of one person by another.

i think "evil" is cloudy vision, that kind of behavior that does intentional harm to another, that is dishonest and could potentially bring about suffering and maybe even death.

Some older cultures(indigenous) didn't have a term called "evil" they termed it "wrong doing" for "evil" was not a human quality. The gods that represented "wrong doing" were more chaotic than "evil", and those cultures believed that humans were naturally "good".

i'm going to stop here because i think we are all naturally "good".

Everyone has his or her unique and irreplaceable role. By playing a role, we become other than ourselves. By momentarily taking the role of the other we lose ourselves in another and experience harmony, beauty, and sacredness that stays with us, as we return to the confusion of our ordinary lives.

Without good ethical behavior, ritual is worthless. Religion should not be used to inflate communal pride and self-esteem, but to encourage the abandonment of egotism.

Our goal should be to look forward to a period of universal peace and compassion.

Truth must be addressed.

For the universe is the same at all times and in all places. It is unchanging, uncreated, and immortal.

There is no final answer.

Truth can be a reality only in our life.

Friendship, piety, courage and justice are not empty fictions.

Knowledge is morality.

If you understand the essence of goodness, you will act properly. But if you are confused, or your understanding of goodness is self-serving your actions will not achieve the life you felt destined to live.

If you don't examine your life it is not worth living. For we should not retaliate or render evil for evil to anyone, whatever evil we may have suffered from them.

i think it is possible to persuade human beings to love instead of hate. It must be all embracing and exclude no one. We should regard another's state as we regard our own, another's family as we regard our own, and another's person as we regard our own. If people don't cultivate benevolence toward the whole human race, family love and patriotism will degenerate into collective egotism.

We should be more interested in doing good than being good.

One crucial aspect of life is that living morally means living for others.