Tao Te Ching 60

Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn’t there, but you’ll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
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Evil finds its power is our inability to accept life as it is. We “step out of its way” by staying present in the here and now, rather than wandering into the past or the future where our fears dwell. Fear is the ground from which evil grows, just as love is the ground from which goodness grows.

Evil draws its energy from our resistance to life. Removing that opposition depletes the energy in evil and it goes away.