What does "The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions" mean?

[Patrick]

It's not the intent alone. Karma requires the action, BUT the karma resulting from an action is supremely affected by the intent behind the action.

Karma is not a stupid calculation only based on actions. It is an exquisitely precise calculation where your intent has a very heavy weight.

Of course, intent/polarity is the potential, action/karma is the kinetic. Everything is a push-pull recursive system of potential vs kinetic.

Karma (kinetic energy) then later informs polarity as it creates new potential energy

Although I don't see it as a calculation, but rather an organic balancing mechanism. But that's just semantics I guess.

I think it comes from our ability to forgive ourselves. For example, if our intent was to do harm and we do it, we may find it harder to forgive ourselves. But if you do harm without having the intent, then you may find it much easier to bring yourself to forgive yourself.