Zoron, here's a more recent family photo. The dog is bigger. The article is enlightening, as well.
Thank you, Grace.
The article itself certainly showed the polarity in what Paul Ryan believes in for himself but is not willing to fight for access for others.
His lack of connection or development of compassion is a trait that is part of the emergence of our shadow selves...the parts we see, hate, mock, etc. in others that is still the unhealed parts of all of ourselves.
This "Great Turning" is a time of great opportunity for all of us to see others as part of ourselves.
It is helpful as we scan Trump, Ryan, Comey, Spicer, Jared. Ivanka. Melania and others to note the similar seeds we might each carry and need this Great Turning as healing for in ourselves.
It's not easy as ego is a great dictator over the true nature of our innate spirit selves!
Thank you Grace for the link and chance to reflect.
Thank you for that insight Warriorwitch. But then we look at anger ;-) And if it's self righteousness..that. Oh, that parade of mirrors down the hallways of our lives!
I do so love the opportunity for inquiry as well as introspection this bright group provides!
Michele, you're welcome.
I have compassion aplenty for his wife and family. I have compassion for a 16 year old who found his father dead of a heart attack. I do not, however, understand the mindset of someone who insists in public what a family man he is then vote against paid leave for his constituents. Ditto for voting against healthcare while our tax dollars pay for his. I can find compassion for certain things and become angry at others because I also have compassion for the many people out there who will be hurt by this.
Unfortunately, I think it was Mr. Ryan promoting his image as a "Catholic conservative family man politician" that has backfired in a big way because of his compartmentalization of the issues on which he votes.
It's easy to see where compassion can be a virtue. Harder to see where anger might be a virtue as well. The hall of mirrors reference is an interesting one, because we can get lost in the abyss of inward reflection and become confused, when in fact, it can indicate where our boundaries are.
Repressing things is not always a bad thing. We can understand why we don't like violent people, understand that we have violent tendencies ourselves and still not engage, still not like it in ourselves or others.
Very interesting conversation Warriorwitch. I can't say I see anger as a virtue either, although a lot of people delight in venting as emotional release. I see that a transmutation of form but not pain.
Anger is, to me, a form of fear..as is hatred in the sense that the transformative emotion...their polarity..would be love.
Love is the higher frequency and one that gives rather than withholds....just as compassion does.
In that sense compassion is empathic communion and sharing of love.
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron can probably explain this much better than I can. Have you read it? I highly recommend it.
It's interesting - when I look at the Paul Ryan family photo in the Chicago Tribune I'm struck by how he is clutching his wife and daughter to himself, and his wife is clutching the sons to herself while the daughter is clutching the removed link so removed link Clearly an insecure, fearful family who are holding on possessively to each removed link And it appears to be coming from him - in the previous photo he was clutching his wife to removed link
I think such possessive insecurity and fearfulness help explain so much about him and the larger Republican base - he can only see his immediate family not empathise with anyone outside removed link
Locus, makes you wonder what he's afraid of losing. Maybe losing his Dad at an early age affected him not than he thinks...?
Warriorwitch:
Different paths to growth, I think. So, I am looking at what you might be sharing here and found..
“Sloth, apathy, and despair are the enemy. Anger is not,” she (Julia Cameron) writes. “Anger is our friend. Not a nice friend. Not a gentle friend. But a very, very loyal friend. It will always tell us when we have been betrayed.”
And
"Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us."
I'm sure her other quotes might get closer to what you mean but these are enough for me to "get" your meaning of using anger in this sense.