Welcome to Daily Breath, Daily Breath. This is Deepak Chopra. We've been talking about the process of bringing evil down to scale, but that idea

won't be convincing until, as I said before, we apply it to our own life.

So let's do that.

Let's take a big issue of our times right now, the worst kind of evil we can imagine, terrorism.

When we think about terrorism, no matter how evil that impals that impulses it can be broken down into steps to resolve it.

Darkness, secrecy, danger, myth, a great story that jihadist kills and goes to heaven.

So that's a myth, it's a great story, but it can empower the terrorist

irrationality, primitiveness.

So even if you kill the terrorist,

you can't get rid of the ideologies that spring from darkness, secrecy, danger, myth, irrationality, and primitiveness.

Therefore, all the war against terrorism is actually an irrational war.

The terrorist is like Medusa's head.

You chop one off, two more show up.

You can kill a person, but you cannot kill the ideology that created that person.

So even though your impulses may never cross the line into violence, you, I'm talking about you who is listening.

Even though your personal impulses will never cross the line into violence, I hope.

Certain impulses intensify in the shadow where you can't see them.

So what I'm suggesting right now is that evil is born in the gap between body and mind. When the mind is conditioned into avoiding the

shadow, then the body participates in the activities of that shadow and that is what we call evil in the world. The It's a hard concept to grasp, but just go back to this one principle.

The world is a mirror of both our personal mind and our collective mind.