One of them is called a wicked personality that knows good.
A wicked personality doesn’t always mean someone is evil.
It means a person knows what good is, but sometimes acts from anger, jealousy, or fear instead of honesty and care.
Many people relate to this personality. They may understand right and wrong. They may even feel bad afterward. But in a moment, strong emotions take over.
When those feelings show up, the person might:
1. blame others
2. lash out
3. try to control (like through people-pleasing, numbness or aggression)
4. put people down
5. justify harmful behavior
Not because they want to be bad, but because those feelings feel overwhelming, and acting on them feels like relief or control.
A wicked personality is when emotions guide the behavior, even though the person knows better, instead of responsibility, compassion, and truth leading the behavior. But this is not a fixed state.
A person with a wicked personality can slowly become a self-controlled one.
Not overnight.
Often over many years, or even a lifetime.
It takes practice, effort, and many small choices to stop acting on every angry, jealous, or fearful feeling and start choosing how to respond.
That struggle itself has meaning, it helps build the world to come, the era of eternal physical life and peacefulness, that your life will continue in.
Each time someone pauses, holds back, or chooses honesty over impulse, they are already becoming a different kind of person.
Growth isn’t about becoming perfect.
It’s about learning to guide your actions instead of being led by your emotions.
Darkness, (shame, fear, guilt,) was placed within you, in order that you may transform it into great light, acts of goodness and kindness.
So you can enjoy goodness without shame b/c you are a partner in creating light.
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