My mother often used an allegory to describe this very point...

The story of How Things Get in a Muddle by Gregory Bateson, taken from his book Steps to an Ecology of Mind.

Taken from his Metalogues, which are too long to post, instead I'll post a summary of them I found Here

A daughter asks her father, “Daddy, why do things get in a muddle?”

The father explores with her what she means, and they come to realise that things do not get in a muddle when people leave them alone. They only get in a muddle when (other) people touch them.

The opposite of ‘muddled’ seems to be ‘tidy’. But they realise that although everyone would agree when things are in a muddle, ‘tidy’ means different things to different people — which is precisely why the father doesn’t like anyone to ‘tidy’ his desk.

Then they think about the example of a cup with a layer of sand in the bottom and a layer of sugar on top. If this is defined as ‘tidy’ then we can see that if the cup were shaken even slightly, then it would be very difficult to get all of the sugar back on top and the sand underneath. “All of science is hooked up with that”, the father explains. And this explains how you can tell when a movie is running backwards, or forwards.

Finally they realise that the reason things get in a muddle is simply that there is a huge number of ways for things to be in a muddle, but only a very small number of ways for things to be ‘tidy’.

Is this not exactly the point you were making?

I'm glad that this knowledge does indeed come from the Bible as I always pondered its meaning and always considered it a key precept that I hold to understand my actions, how to forgive myself, how to try better next time...

Thank you for sharing my brother!
Peace and Love,

Hae-Joo