The laws of the universe, in addition to their other properties, are benevolent since they are fundamental to the fullness of life. As these laws govern us, they make us intrinsically lovable, and the universe lovable. It is an experience of wholeness and repletion.
The inevitable disillusionment with this idea during childhood results in an overcompensatory attempt to get back in contact with these laws, resulting in an attitude of being whole and replete already, having no desires and maintaining a false harmony characterized by sloth. Sloth refers to a psychospiritual inertia, which denies the true needs and existence of the self, made manifest in a passive, live-and-let-live attitude. Nines over-adapt the self and pursue harmony until they have come in contact with the replete benevolence of life.
The affective components of sloth include, but are not limited to: paucity of experience, lack of volition, fluidity of the self-concept, numbness, false sense of peace. Sloth’s volition suggests acting without referring to the true wants and needs of the self, which may pose a disrupting conflict (and jeopardize that experience of benevolence).
The fixation becomes, then, on finding a source of love outside the self which doesn’t require getting in touch with their interiority. The trap leading to this fixation is seeking, searching for what will bring them peace or love (of course, a false love that doesn’t involve the self), a comfortable slipstream. Their attention turns to feeling, vicariously, the benevolent laws underlying the universe.