There's an animal within us all, and our relationship with it is significant. Some mistreat this animal through neglect or abuse, and its pain shows in their actions. Take a person who refuses to admit they're part wild and lives for the superficial, material, and status. They feed ego instead of nurturing the animal. They deny their nature - they eventually find themselves miserable. Or consider a person too wild, too unkept that their animal turns beast, violently consuming them inside out until they attack others. A human is an interplay between two contrary forces forming a unity. Partly, we have this alien intellect connected to an animal heart. And if we are unconscious of this, then we bring a world of pain to ourselves and the external. I see this often through various channels of interaction - intimacy, diet, environment - think of how violent people can be to one another and their cruelty towards other beings; it all starts with how they connect, acknowledge and treat the animal within.
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