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To suppress anger by the exertion of will is to transfer anger to a different level, giving it a different name, but it is still part of violence. To be free from violence, which is not the cultivation of non-violence, there must be the understanding of desire. If you go into anger very deeply, not just brush it aside, what is involved? Why is one angry? Because one is hurt, someone has said an unkind thing; and when someone says a flattering thing, you are pleased. Why are you hurt? Self-importance, is it not? And why is there self-importance? Because one has an idea, a symbol of oneself, an image of oneself, what one should be, what one is or what one should not be. Why does one create an image about oneself? Because one has never studied what one is, actually. We think we should be this or that, the ideal, the hero, the example. What awakens anger is that our ideal, the idea we have of ourselves, is attacked. And our idea about ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we are.
From What Are You Doing With Your Life?
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One of the most common expressions of violence is anger. When my wife or sister is attacked, I say I am righteously angry; when my country is attacked, my ideas, my principles, my way of life, I am righteously angry. I am also angry when my habits or my petty opinions are attacked. When you tread on my toes or insult me, I get angry. If you run away with my wife and I get jealous, that jealousy is called righteous because I think she is my property. And all this anger is morally justified, and to kill for my country is also justified. So when we are talking about anger, which is a part of violence, do we look at anger in terms of righteous and unrighteous anger according to our own inclinations and environmental drive, or do we see only anger? Is there righteous anger ever, or is there only anger?
From Total Freedom
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#Day118 of #365HappyDays : editing this email to anonymise it has taken away all context. π
The daughter of a friend got her #NMC PIN today. She has completed her training and is now officially a #RMN. I was with her at the very start of her journey, have been around in required moments throughout it, and to be with her at the end of it and see her achievement makes me swell with how #proud I am of her.
Her values are amazing. Sheβll be such a good nurse.
H/T @garethmarlow