Sometimes people become confused and think that to be stuck in an outdated rage means to fuss and fume and to act and toss and throw things. It does not mean that in most cases. It means to be tired all the time, to carry a thick layer of cynicism, to dash the hopeful, the tender, the promising.*
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Here’s how to guarantee you have a good day: do good. Any other source of joy is outside your control or is non-renewable. But this one is all of you, all the time, and unending.**
Ryan Holiday
We think we can control our anger–
All the time it’s seeping into
Our bones, our thinking, our ability to respond.
We want justice but,
Like Godot, it’s unlikely
to turn up as we expect.^
Better to bring our own justice,
The kind that will change our day–
To do good to others is to do good to ourselves.
When we bring imagination to reality
in a generative action, transcendence
and transformation may follow.
*Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run With the Wolves;
**Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic;
^John Caputo (What Would Jesus Deconstruct?) writes: Justice is always to come, never realised, always soliciting from ahead, but at the same time justice is demanded now.
THIN|SILENCE 