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I've never liked fighting and have never been in a serious fight.
I've come close a couple of times when I was younger, but I was always able to diffuse such situations.
I'm not exactly the kind of guy people want to fight.
I tend to feel sorry for those who do like to fight or who would rather fight than seek another path. I wish I could help diffuse such anger, as it does no one any good.
I understand that fighting in self-defense is necessary in certain situations, though I'm not sure even this is something to be liked.
What does it take to like fighting? What conditions of mind?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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