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of my concept of righteousness, but I doubt not that the Master, with a more mature type of personality, would easily and gracefully gain an equal victory by his superior and winsome technique of tact and tolerance. All too often, when we battle for the right, it turns out that both the victor and the vanquished have sustained defeat. I heard the Master say only yesterday that the 'wise man, when seeking entrance through the locked door, would not destroy the door but rather would seek for the key wherewith to unlock it.' Too often we engage in a fight merely to convince ourselves that we are not afraid." (1778)
Too often, also, we humans unnecessarily engage in conflict because it is a part of our human frailty that we simply like to win, or we actually enjoy the adrenalin flush that conflict arouses. But what of the losers who are, after all, our brothers and sisters?
So, until convinced otherwise, we stick with, "All conflict is evil."
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