When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
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Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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