An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.
“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.
One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”
He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.
The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”
The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”
LMAO s'all good friend. Full admission on my part and likely due to the last 100 years of western civ; pity doesn't resonate as positively with me as the word compassion. Again, semantics. Maybe instead of using the word "Evil", we should use the word "Sin" for this metaphor. ie to Self Pity can be a SIN; where as the act itself is not necessarily evil though. That said, I'm not sure the Cherokees had "Sin", so "Evil" in this context may already represent such.