Staying separate from another’s anger is vitally important. Let the anger be in the other person. He will have to feel his anger to get better. If you either rescue him from it or take it on yourself, the angry person will not get better
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A great takeaway for me...becoming aware of this and getting away from the toxic concept of "enduring others' nonsense is my duty and expectation" has been a freeing concept in my life.


“No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.”
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“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
― Bag of Bones
― Bag of Bones

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