Good Morning,

I have seen so much anger in my lifetime, from people angered by
standing in lines to anger brought on by simple misunderstandings. It
has been said that anger is the easiest of all emotions to manifest
because it has no reason or control, it is basically a reaction with
no real purpose or intent. Like all things though it can become
useful with the right understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi provides a perfect example of how anger can be
harnessed. As a young, unknown, brown-skinned lawyer traveling in
South Africa on business, he was roughly thrown from the train
because he refused to surrender his first-class ticket and move to
the third-class compartment. He spent a cold, sleepless night on the
railway platform.

Later, he said this was the turning point of his life: for on that
night, full of anger because of this personal injustice, as well as
the countless injustices suffered by so many others every day in
South Africa, he resolved not to rest until he had set those
injustices right. On that night he conquered his anger and vowed to
resist injustice, not by violence or retaliation, but through the
loving power of nonviolent resistance, which elevates the
consciousness of both oppressed and oppressor.

We may never be called on to liberate a people or lead a vast nation,
but Gandhi's example can apply in a small way in our own lives, when
we decide to return goodwill for ill will, love for hatred, in the
innumerable little acts of daily life.

"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to
conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy,
even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power that can
move the world."
Mahatma Gandhi

Peace and Love, Jim