Righteous Anger

Is fire, focused in the direction of steady values that serve the human spirit and uphold personal standards.

It is not a premature, immature, indiscriminate lashing out in the same way that raw anger can be.

Righteous anger is reserved for those who can hold the fiery pain of life while knowing it cannot and should not be held indefinitely without transmutation.

Anger is a potent energy source, to be creatively directed by the discerning and loving human being, towards the construction of a better way; towards the purification of that which is excessively burdensome to man’s goodness.

Of course, anger itself is a response to feeling overburdened… its compensatory nature runs wild and discharges pain into undeserving human hearts when strength, will-power and divine connection is scarce.

But when it is righteous, and there is goodness, humility and sincerity present in that anger, so too will there be a symmetrical care for the self as well as other selves, and so the anger becomes surgical and penetrative, purifying that which obscures our experience of the one soul.

The godliness of deep love will not be sabotaged, and righteous anger is evidence of life’s enacted insistence on loving connection.

Fierce and merciful is the radiance of this delusion destroyer.

Parasitic belief systems are not safe when the human being reclaims his all-seeing heart and its power to rebuild the material realm in the image of beauty and truth.

A human is not complete without access to righteous anger — it is as natural and essential as the sun’s rays and the warmth of campfire and the entrancement of candle-gaze. Without it, we grow away from the full glory of human story, towards weakness, coldness, apathy, manipulation. A man without righteous anger is not a real man, but a vicious wolf who thinks he is a gentle sheep.

So, my dear reader, never apologise for your anger. It ties you to your core and insists that you remain involved in that which truly matters to you, especially when you forget what matters.

You are very much involved in life. When anger comes, it will burn away what isn’t you, until you are free from your past and ready again to give and receive the fresh fruit of the now.