“The greatest hatred, the most spiteful vindictiveness, the worst impulses of cruelty, if honestly and squarely admitted, if neither acted out irresponsibly nor repressed and denied, if fully accepted for what they are, will never become harmful. It will diminish in intensity to the degree it is thus accepted, seen, faced, admitted, and must sooner or later convert into flowing, life-giving energy. Hate will turn into love, cruelty into healthy aggression and self-assertion, stagnation into joy and pleasure. It is inevitably so… This realization must be groped for again and again until it becomes second nature, until it is no longer forgotten. When you blindly and self-righteously act out destructiveness, you express evil into your world. By denying its existence, you stagnate vital creative energy, which putrefies in you. By squarely recognizing it, you neither act out nor deny. Thus creative energy flow is released.” (PL #184)