I agree that anyone who does harm to another is not in their real self. They are under an illusion of being threatened. Our real self is beyond all of this. There is no harm to come to our real beingness.

Dalai Lama says
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion
The Dalai Lama

Bible says though they be as scarlet your sins shall be white as snow.

What they are both saying is coming into a state of empathic realization do we go beyond our shortfalling.