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Old 05-19-2006, 01:26 PM   #18 (permalink)
Cynthetiq
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I am quite open to the fact that a bad emotion can exist, but as far as I have seen and others have shared with me their range of emotions, none are. Each emotion is balance within the being, for happiness needs sadness, joy needs sorrow, laughter needs anguish. If you have no sadness one can never appreciate happiness. Why? Because emotions are what make us human.

In reference to your anger piece, no you feel the anger. You should be removing what causes the anger. If being upset by traffic and peole cutting you off makes you angry, then you need to understand what it is you can do about it. If you have to drive to get to where you want to go, well then there is little you can do to change it. But what you can change is your own responsibiltiy to it and that is accepting it as it is. You cannot change the traffic, you cannot change the people cutting you off. You know it's going to happen. Accept it. The anger has no place any longer.

Sure you're very welcome to have your belief structure. I'm not stating that it is wrong. I'm just sharing my experience which is counter to yours.

Yours is something that I did believe for a very long time, and in my quest for inner peace, I found that I was standing too close to the tree to see the forest.

edit: I'm rereading it and the lower portion seems to actually be in more agreement with each other than at first pass. If you'd like to discuss this further I'd like to continue to do so, I am just hoping that we aren't keeping anyone else from participating in the discussion.
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