Vials of Passion : From Wrath to Love

Anger is transformative, and it is often the peak state we reach before we truly change our lives. This is because anger is not intended to be projected onto someone else; rather, it’s an influx of motivation that helps us change what we need to change within our lives. When we do not see it as such, we tend to bury it, not ever resolving the real

How do we experience painful circumstances without becoming embittered by them?

By seeing them as lessons and not as retribution.

There are three ways in which the individual can attempt to solve the problem. He can renounce one side in favor of the other; he can retire from the conflict altogether; or he can seek a solution that will satisfy both sides. The first two possibilities need no further discussion. The third seems at first impossible. How can contradictory opposite

Good loses some of its goodness, and evil some of its evil. As doubt of the “light” of consciousness increases, so the “darkness” of the soul appears less black. A new symbol emerges in which the opposites can be reconciled. I am thinking here of the symbols of the Cross, of the T’ai-Chi-Tu, and of the Golden Flower. For the individual, the emergen

If your anger is love’s anger, it comes on strong, serves to deepen communion in love, and then dissolves instantly.

"The reality of evil, as manifested on this plane of development, must be accepted by each individual in order to learn to cope with it and thus to truly overcome it. Evil must be faced and overcome primarily within the self. Only then can evil be dealt with outside the self. . . . The human consciousness finds itself in a state of development