If you have ever seen babies and I’m sure you have, when they are in their early two’s, they often throw tantrums. These tantrums come about because they cannot resolve situations internally, and they do not know exactly how else to express themselves.
As adults we also carry strong emotions at times. If we cannot resolve these strong emotions within ourselves we end up doing things that are inappropriate, sometimes grossly inappropriate.
Emotions are a large part of who we are, and how we act. Until we get to the point where we have some control and knowledge of our emotions, we are subject to our emotions. So, when anger comes, people do angry things. People react in angry ways. People forget the rules of conduct, and feel that they are entitled to do what they want. One should realize that in a state of anger, actions that come out of us are not controlled by us, they are controlled by the anger within us. Anger makes us feel that we are a victim, and because we feel like a victim we do whatever we want in retribution to correct the injustice that we believe has been done to us. Anger forgets about God, anger forgets about the fact that all things are corrected by God, and that all things are put into their place by God. Anger makes us believe we have the right of judgment, which in reality is God’s responsibility.
We need to be very careful about the emotions that we carry. We need to try to intend to carry certain emotions. The emotion of love is one that we need to intend. We need to intend love constantly in our being. It is through love that we are able to alter other emotions, and stop them from coming into being. Love is the answer to most problems. Love has a soothing nature that can correct interior falseness, interior wrong thinking, interior animosities, interior jealousies, interior hastiness, interior rambunctiousness, and interior hatred. Love corrects all of these. If we are without love, these things will not be corrected because anger makes us believe that we should alter things externally. Anger makes us believe that we should change our external circumstances, so that those external circumstances fit within what our angry state thinks the way things should be, or judgment thinks the way things should be.
The truth is that anger is an internal phenomenon, and will not be changed by altering external conditions. What we need to do is focus on who we are from an internal point of view. We need to focus on being able to conjure love into our being.
