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Anger is an active emotion usually found
present at the time of every act of violence and cruelty. In the modern
context, anger is considered to mean "the active feeling of provocation,
passion, rage or wrath against a thing or person".
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In our minds today an angry person is virtually
synonymous with a violent person. Hence, signs of anger in public places such
as trains and aircraft are now assumed to be early warning signs of potential
violence and often result in the person being warned, or subdued before any
potential incident.
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Yet when the word originally came into the English
language during the Middle Ages, it had a very different meaning. The word
itself originates from Latin angere (anguish) and meant "that
which pains, or afflicts, or the feeling which produces trouble, vexation,
sorrow."
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The root of anger is pain
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The importance of this base to anger is critically
important, as the root of anger literally and personally represent some kind of
pain or anguish. A balanced person, a happy person is not in pain or anguish
and so cannot be considered angry. Only a person experiencing some kind of
internal anguish.
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Anger is therefore a sign of something troubling
within a person, not a cause in itself. Only by addressing the thing that is
troubling a person can anger be extinguished.
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Anger with the world and with some cosmology |
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One of the most base fuels of human anger is when an issue or event causes such pain that it challenges our beliefs in our God, Allah, One Spirit or Unique Collective Awareness. |
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In our time of greatest need, we feel betrayed. Our beliefs seem to brittle. There seems no rational reason to continue to believe if nothing is returned. And so the anger of loss of faith can sometimes be one of the strongest angers along with zealous devotion to a mission. |
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Finding answers |
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Nothing destroys the legitimacy of a cause, nor weakens a force faster than anger.-(Frank O'Collins) |
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You might be interested in finding more
answers in relation to this emotion. If this is the case then the Journey
of Self might be of interest.
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If you would like a practical answer and
something that may help you in relation to this issue right now, then please
click on reflections to
see one or more reflections you can immediately use about this issue.
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