Love Your Enemies: How To Break The Anger Habit by Robert AF Thurman & Sharon Salzberg Anger is like a powerful addiction. Were addicted to anger as a state of being and a way of acting in the world. But if we are to have any peace, we must recognize hatred and anger as potentially lethal compulsions that we have to kick. Like any addict, we have to realize the full power of these mental impulses in order to truly resolve to free ourselves from them. We must not be confused by the thought that sometimes anger has a positive use, such as impelling us to take action against injustice. In fact, critical judgment and ethical commitment is what impels us to act to correct injustice, and if anger goes along with them, it tends to make that action ineffective. But such kinds of rationalization are how addictive substances keep their hold on us...goo.gl/FCPo81
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 01:00:25 +0000
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