ANGER
I ran my second husband over with a Volkswagen. So I joined the Surrender Group. I learned from Herrymon Maurer that “There are always at least 35 good ways to handle any difficult situation and the first, and the best, is to RUN AWAY.”
It has been a long time since I hit anybody. I am not sure if that is growth or old age. I know one true thing; it hurts to be angry even if I do not turn my anger into action in the physical world.
Four thoughts have been helpful to me. My conclusion is the poem. Like Beau says, “It’s just a thought.
Martin Buber argued that whereas good comes from a dedication to walking the moral path, one falls into evil through an absence of attention. One must work to be good, but one happens to be evil.
I discovered in the earliest stages that pursuit of truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one’s opponent but that he must be weaned from error by patience and compassion. For what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent, but on oneself.” — Mohandas Gandhi.
Life is suffering. — Buddha.
girls we was all of us ladies
until we went and fell
and oncet a thoroughbred always game
i ask you wotthehell
it s last week up and this week down
and always the devil to pay
but cripes i was always the lady
and the word is toujours gai — Mehitabel
