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Anger and connection.
Feb. 27th, 2003 12:21 pmFrederick Buechner:
"Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back -- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you."
Thomas a Kempis:
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
C.S. Lewis:
"Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone."
Han Suyin:
"...love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other."
b. 1917 Chinese writer and physician
Albert Einstein:
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back -- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you."
Thomas a Kempis:
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
C.S. Lewis:
"Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone."
Han Suyin:
"...love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other."
b. 1917 Chinese writer and physician
Albert Einstein:
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
