War is a mind-set

Just read about another bomb in Antalya, Turkey. So I'm going to share what I read this morning:

"In certain cases, you may need to protect yourself or someone else from being harmed by another, but beware of making it your mission to 'eradicate evil,' as you are likely to turn into the very thing you are fighting against. Fighting unconsciousness will draw you into unconcsciousness yourself. Unconsciousness, dysfuntional egoic behavior, can never be defeated by attacking it. Even if you defeat your opponent, the unconsciousness will simply have moved into you, or the opponent reappears in a new disquise. Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists." [my bold]

- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth, page 74-75, Penguin Books, 2005