Monday, November 11, 2024

Anger Management: A Portrait of the Draftee as Frederick Douglass

  


Me, 1969–1973


Gandhi:  "I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world."



All the time I was in the military I was filled to the brim with bubbling volcanic rage at being forced to be in the military, in involuntary servitude to a consummate evil.



"When a man has altered his conscious response from such anger or abhorrence into a paradoxical peace, then he has defied the demon of the difficulty and transformed it into a little angel - redeemed the demon of sad circumstance with a pity and a mercy and a supplication asked and received from God. This in turn brings the man his spirituality consciously won. From this he shall receive a clarity and attention which increases his perception of the heavenly worlds and their aspect; he has befriended Christ in league for a love higher than anger or residual bitterness."















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