An American author, James Baldwin, once said "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." In a sense, his statement is satisfying to the mind. Mr. Baldwin may have meant that all problems may not always be solvable, but you can't fix any problem if you don't "face" it. Just as everyone has the potential for evil within themselves, we too have the potential for true …
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…how even in today's society with the amount of civility we posses; inner darkness may arise in many ways. With the potential for evil so great in today's materialistic, difficult society, we find ourselves with the difficult task of taking life's many journeys and tests. Not every journey will result in goodness, and the ones that do not are a learning experience in which must gain the self-knowledge to prevent our inner darkness from emerging.