Cloudscape

Any vice will become a virtue through detachment. Vanity turns into pride, greed turns into ambition, anger into fervor, and so forth. It seems that all vice is caused by attachment. The beauty of this is that through detachment, vice still retains its original energy, but it is counterbalanced by its opposite, so that there detachment. In this realization, there can be no attraction towards vice, as whatever beauty it has, there remains once it is combined with peace, but it is then enabled to grow.

But attachment is also a form of ignorance, or rather, it is caused by it: attachment is caused by the unawareness of its own destruction. One might, however, know that one causes destruction but not actually be aware of it. No one could cause another destruction while being fully aware of it, for in being fully aware of it it would be as though they were doing it to themselves; but neither could they do it to themselves in that case, for to be fully aware of that destruction, they would also have to be fully aware of the creation that could oppose it, and so could not but choose for the latter, for the beauty of creation, if one is fully aware of it, is far more attractive than destruction. Any attraction of destruction falls away in the full awareness of creation.

With the words "creation" and "destruction," I mean to denote "good" and "evil" without the ring of judgment.

See also:

Positive and Negative

Anything done out of craving or fear rather than love will destroy, whereas only what is done through love can create. This is a general rule because of how love, craving and fear are defined; love will do only that which is the best for that which it loves, whereas fear and craving will bring it harm in trying to do so. However, it must be noted that in everything we do there is both at least some love and some craving and fear involved, so that everything we do will therefore both create and destroy. We cannot be perfect in fully doing everything out of love alone.
We should to do whatever we do with greater love than we do it with fear and craving, to let our love be greater than our fear and craving in what we do; otherwise we should not do it at all, as it would then bring more harm than it would bring growth. If we really are to do something but our craving and fear to do so is greater than our love, then we should wait as long as it remains so, until our love has become greater.

We are what makes the difference between a cosmos that could just as well not have existed at all, and a universe that is full of wonders. It is we who bring the entire universe to life. In the blink of an eye we can create anything at all before our eyes. In the clear night, all the stars obey us, coming at our bidding into the sky when we look up, stars that without us would have no light. Without us flowers would have no color, the winds would have no sound, the rain would have no touch, the air would have no smell, and spices would have no taste. All the marvels in the world we have created ourselves, for otherwise no-one would otherwise experience them.
For no matter how vast, the greatest stars or galaxies do not know of their own vastness; in us alone are they vast. It is we, then, that are the crown of evolution. We that are alive are greater than anything in the universe. For without us there would be naught. We, living beings, are the creators; for beyond us there is naught but that which could become.

God could not have created everything; for he is everything; the unification of everything, that is. Anything he would have created would already have existed as part of itself. God is the circumference of an infinite circle; not its center.
It was not God who created the Universe; it was the Universe which created God. This is the true miracle of the Creation: that everything flows not downward from order to disorder, but upward from disorder to order. From chaos arose divinity, and not the other way around. For even the greatest wonders we can perceive in the world all ultimately owe their existence to a continuous flux toward perfection; toward infinity; toward eternity.
And though thermodynamics states that the universe ever increases in entropy, this is false; it is a perfect example of how extrapolation can lead us to fallacies. Since the Big Bang, the entropy of the universe has not increased, but on the contrary decreased. Just look around - at the moment the universe arose, all you'd have seen, if you could see anything at all then before being incinerated, would have been a homogeneity soup of quarks. Ever since, it has become more heterogenous to form stars, planets, and ultimately, life. Forget not, that even we are part of the universe - and we bring order in the universe faster than ever before.