And in the echo of that gladness, horror blooms within me. In its own strange way, it's a horror as deep as any I've experienced so far. I've succeeded in taking another human hostage, in making him urinate on himself. I made a plan to torture someone, and then I carried it out, and it satisfied me to do so. As much hurt and hell as the Wolfman has caused, I don't want to be his judge and jury, his jailer and tormentor. I don't want to be that person. I want to be good. I don't want to fall into a big, black pit of darkness, because what if I can't get out?
Genuine goodness isn__ discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.
Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
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Genuine goodness isn__ discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.
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