“Kindness above blind rage.”

H,

You know this thing about my temper.  I am always pressing away from it. I have a series of easy build ups and then there is the volcano, up and about and curbing my soul into tiny eruptions that have no grace in them. I have to learn kindness over blind rage.

There is nothing wrong with being upset or angry. There are things to be angry and upset about. The reaction is the thing. The expression of it in violent words or actions is the bane of it. We should never be hurtful, even though we frequently are. We should never be unkind, even though we frequently are. This is not coda for how we will behave. It is part of the map of how we should behave.

Dwelling in the light means you will have more questions about your own behaviour. If this does not happen, you may be slipping into the dark spot of yourself.  If it is all that happens then you have become the point of reference for yourself, your flaws have become things you can handle, and you have decided to fix yourself. Both positions are untenable. We are to dwell in the light and not fix ourselves in the light. The same kindness above blind rage we are to give to others we must also give to ourselves.