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Compassionate Wrath: Transpersonal Approaches to Anger

By Robert Augustus Masters — 2000

In this essay, two transpersonally-oriented approaches to anger are closely examined, and a radical reconsideration of anger is recommended.

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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

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When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’

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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

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