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Righteous anger is not anger at all. It is the Loving Limit that says “NO” to all that is not loving. It might look strong, even violent, but when it comes from love, it cannot be defined as violence. It is a natural limit. Eg, If we destroy the rainforest and it results in fires, storms, floods, and destruction, it is the Love Force's way of restoring balance from the Life Force of Love. It seeks to understand wrongdoing, seeing underlying causes of shame, fear, and pain in the perpetrator. It says no to defensive behavior but yes to the person. This cannot be achieved externally until you master this internally. It requires great awareness to know ourselves well enough to know the difference between loving limit and violence in ourselves

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Internal limit-setting, not internal violence, is a prerequisite for the spiritual path.

Indulgence and self-pity of everything you do, feel, think, and believe is not loving.
Acting out everything you think, feel, and need in attempts to control others is not loving.
Internally damning and berating yourself if you make a mistake is not loving.

Limits must be clear and unequivocal, as well as gently, lovingly accepting of yourself as a spirit being learning to be in a world of dualities.

At a societal level, we will not know how to respond to violence, power, and control, unless we know how they relate to our own inner violence in a non- violent way.

EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON ENOUGH PEOPLE DOING THEIR INNER WORK.

John O'Donohue

March 5, 2016 ·

In these times when anger

Is turned into anxiety

And someone has stolen

The horizons and mountains,

Our small emperors on parade

Never expect our indifference

To disturb their nakedness.

They keep their heads down

And their eyes gleam with reflection

From an aluminum economic ground,

The media wraps everything

In a cellophane of sound,

And the ghost surface of the virtual

Overlays the breathing earth.

The industry of distraction

Makes us forget

That we live in a universe.

We have become converts

To the religion of stress

And its deity of progress;

That we may have courage

To turn aside from it all

And come to kneel down before the poor,

To discover what we must do,

How to turn anxiety

Back into anger,

How to find our way home.

John O'Donohue

'For Citizenship' from BENEDICTUS (Europe) /

TO BLESS THE SPACE BETWEEN US (US)

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