Anger
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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