do we want to control everything alone instead of sharing our possessions and power, and making space for others in a common household? Why do others strike us as “dirt” rather than “ornament”? Why cannot we accept our shadows so as to be able to embrace others instead of projecting our own unwanted evil onto them? Ultimately, no answer to these questions is available, just as no answer is available to the question about the origin of evil. From the outset, the answer was lost in the intractable labyrinth of the “the heart’s desire that stiffens the will against all competing considerations”
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