The way this is written is clearly intended to speak about energy of people, and some that steal it, like you’d steal a candy on your coworker desk, for example.
Which, oof, I just can’t take it seriously right from the start.
And then there’s the gross generalization of people and how they act, but that’s a more common trope, which can sometimes be partly true at least but meh.
I see, it does make sense but there’s an argument to be made about obscuring things like that (not in the case of aikido tho, here it’s more of a “practical translation” of sort, and how it has always been passed down), which is why I said I can’t take it seriously.
But you’re right that if it profits OP, good for them, it’s a bit like religion in that sense.
Thanks for the precision