The Enigma of Anger: Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin

ANGER

Apparently, the poet who asked God to "Throw away Thy wrath" would not have asked him to throw away the thunder.ANGER

I asked myself the question, "What do you want of your life?" and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, "Exactly what I have-but to be commensurate, to handle it all better."

But in other cases these are individuals who have succeeded in reducing everything to the least common denominator.

A third misconception in our list has to do with our failure to see the relationship not only between anger and our unregenerate selves, but between anger and our integrity.

But if something does go wrong, we may and ourselves as easily aroused to anger as we are back home-perhaps more so, because the mishap outrages the expectation created by the mix of luxury and tranquility that we have contrived.

Obviously a change of situation or scene or even of religious regimen is not likely to solve our problem with anger, ifwe do indeed have a problem.

our belief that anger is always tied to an objective cause. Something out there makes us mad, and if we can but eliminate whatever that something is, then we shall be at peace again.

In our resolutions, and even in our fantasies, we are continually making that assumption. If I could just get away from here, if I could just be more disciplined, if I could just renew my prayer life, then things would be better, more manageable, quieter.