We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. ~ Mark Twain
Most of us don’t know ourselves. We think we do, but this is mostly mental abstraction. We have an image, and a story, but very rarely do we have a complete and honest picture of who we really are. Yet knowing oneself is the only true way any of us can make any real progress, find any measurement of personal peace and help aid in the transformation to a better world.
One of the greatest hindrances to this is anger. As with all of the shadow emotions, we are taught to hold anger in from an early age, as it is socially unacceptable. Hence we grow up bottling a lot of powerfully charged negative emotion that doesn’t go away, but instead finds its outlet through other behaviours and physical symptoms...
