ANGER, its impact and how to deal with it beautifully described in Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier: When others make us angry at them – at their shamelessness, injustice, inconsideration – then they exercise power over us, they proliferate and gnaw at our soul, then anger is like a white-hot poison that corrodes all mild, noble and balanced feelings and robs us of sleep. Sleepless, we turn on the light and are angry at the anger that has lodged like a succubus who sucks us dry and debilitates us. What could it mean to deal appropriately with anger? We really don’t want to be soulless creatures who remain thoroughly indifferent to what they come across, creatures whose appraisals consist only of cool, anemic judgments and nothing can shake them up because nothing really bothers them. Therefore, we can’t seriously wish not to know the experience of anger and instead persist in an equanimity that wouldn’t be distinguished from tedious insensibility. Anger also teaches us something about who we are. Therefore this is what I’d like to know; what can it mean to train ourselves in anger and imagine that we take advantage of its knowledge without being addicted to its poison?
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 06:10:46 +0000
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