"As Saint Paul puts it so well, 'The will is present with me, but how to do that which is good, I find not. For the good that I would do, I do not, and the evil that I would not do, that I do.' In other words, we all come down to something in ourselves that is called the yetzer ha ra, the wayward spirit that God is supposed to have put into the soul of Adam. In my translation, it is our element of 'irreducible rascality.' We are all basically scamps in one way or another..."
- Alan Watts
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