All sins are attempts to fill voids.
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.