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"All happiness emanates from the fulfillment of your purpose in the world. All sadness, anger and confusion result from the denial of this purpose."
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"All [[happiness]] emanates from the [[fulfillment]] of your purpose in the world. All sadness, anger and confusion result from the denial of this purpose."
 
<ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', Chapter 4: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/your-relationship-with-the-world Your Relationship with the World]</ref>
 
<ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', Chapter 4: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/your-relationship-with-the-world Your Relationship with the World]</ref>
  
 
"All
 
"All
anger comes from confusion."
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anger comes from [[confusion]]."
 
<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step260-I-am-a-friend-of-the-world-today.htm Step 260]: I am a friend of the world today.</ref>
 
<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step260-I-am-a-friend-of-the-world-today.htm Step 260]: I am a friend of the world today.</ref>
  
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<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step83-I-value-Knowledge-beyond-all-things.htm Step 83]: I value Knowledge beyond all things.</ref>
 
<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step83-I-value-Knowledge-beyond-all-things.htm Step 83]: I value Knowledge beyond all things.</ref>
  
"Relationships which are used to fulfill fantasy and idealism must always go astray and end in anger and disappointment."
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"Relationships which are used to fulfill fantasy and [[idealism]] must always go astray and end in anger and [[disappointment]]."
 
<ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', Chapter 3: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/your-relationship-with-others Your Relationship with Others]</ref>
 
<ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', Chapter 3: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/your-relationship-with-others Your Relationship with Others]</ref>
  
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"[[Fear]] breeds hatred and distrust,
 
"[[Fear]] breeds hatred and distrust,
 
anger and retribution."
 
anger and retribution."
<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/happiness-in-the-world Chapter 24: Happiness in the World]</ref>
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<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 24: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/happiness-in-the-world Happiness in the World]</ref>
  
 
"Anger is unjustified, for anger alone is merely your
 
"Anger is unjustified, for anger alone is merely your
 
response to your failure to apply [[Knowledge]]."
 
response to your failure to apply [[Knowledge]]."
<ref>[[Steps to Knowledge]], [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step241-My-anger-is-unjustified.htm Step 241]: My anger is unjustified.</ref>
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<ref name="stk241">''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step241-My-anger-is-unjustified.htm Step 241]: My anger is unjustified.</ref>
  
"An angry God is the projection and creation of angry people."<ref>''The Power of Knowledge'': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/power-of-knowledge/the-spiritual-fire The Spiritual Fire]</ref>
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"An angry God is the [[projection]] and creation of angry people."<ref>'' The Power of Knowledge'', Chapter 13: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/the-spiritual-fire The Spiritual Fire]</ref>
  
==Quotes About Anger Avoidance==
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[[File:Cognitive dissonance by horyokun.png|right]]
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==Quotes about anger avoidance==
 
"It is really necessary to begin to explore your own feelings. If you cannot feel anger, then you will not feel love. If you cannot feel sadness, how can you experience affinity with anyone? If you are choked because of the suppression of these
 
"It is really necessary to begin to explore your own feelings. If you cannot feel anger, then you will not feel love. If you cannot feel sadness, how can you experience affinity with anyone? If you are choked because of the suppression of these
 
things, then your mind will be unclear, your senses will be dulled and your expression will be oppressed."
 
things, then your mind will be unclear, your senses will be dulled and your expression will be oppressed."
<ref>[https://newknowledgelibrary.org/audio-mp3/the-watchtower-audio-download/#_ga=2.212230356.1724712096.1553945266-1857208979.1549163997 The Watchtower] (February 17, 2009)</ref>
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<ref>''The Great Practices'': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/watchtower-paying-attention-world The Watchtower]</ref>
  
 
==Directives==
 
==Directives==
"This is a time now to stop blaming others, to end your ceaseless debates, to set aside your grievances and your hostilities, to face the fact that you are going to have to live life much more simply in the future. You will be living in a world of great resource restraints. You will not be able to get around very easily. Everything will be very expensive and there will have to be a great emphasis on producing food and other necessary things on a much more local scale. There will have to be tremendous restraint of anger, blame and hostility if people are to make this necessary transition. So many assumptions and beliefs will have to be set aside to face the reality of your situation."
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"This is a time now to stop blaming others, to end your ceaseless debates, to set aside your grievances and your hostilities, to face the fact that you are going to have to live life much more simply in the future. You will be living in a world of great resource restraints. You will not be able to get around very easily. Everything will be very expensive and there will have to be a great emphasis on producing food and other necessary things on a much more local scale. There will have to be tremendous restraint of anger, [[blame]] and hostility if people are to make this necessary transition. So many assumptions and beliefs will have to be set aside to face the reality of your situation."
<ref>[https://newknowledgelibrary.org/audio-mp3/navigating-the-difficult-times-ahead-audio-downloads/#_ga=2.189661547.1724712096.1553945266-1857208979.1549163997 Navigating the Difficult Times Ahead] (September 29, 2008)</ref>
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<ref>''The New World Prophecy '': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/the-new-world-prophecy/navigating-difficult-times-ahead Navigating the Difficult Times Ahead]</ref>
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"Do not waste your time and energy being angry at the world, condemning the world."<ref name="tnmfyp"/>  
  
"Do not waste your time and energy being angry at the world, condemning the world." ... "Unless you can really change something yourself or be a part of a group of people who can really change something, do not condemn things. Do not condemn people, organizations or governments unless you alone or you in concert with others can really change something. Do not sit idly and condemn the world. This is like slitting your wrists and letting the blood flow out. It is such a great loss of energy, and it gives you nothing. It takes you nowhere. It might seem self-satisfying in the moment. It might seem very justified in the moment, but it is really wasteful, and it just adds more anger and criticism into the mental environment of the world—things which the world does not need."
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"Unless you can really [[change]] something yourself or be a part of a group of people who can really change something, do not [[Condemnation|condemn]] things. Do not condemn people, organizations or governments unless you alone or you in concert with others can really change something. Do not sit idly and condemn the world. This is like slitting your wrists and letting the blood flow out. It is such a great loss of energy, and it gives you nothing. It takes you nowhere. It might seem self-satisfying in the moment. It might seem very justified in the moment, but it is really wasteful, and it just adds more anger and criticism into the mental environment of the world—things which the world does not need."
<ref>[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/message-young-people The New Message for Young People] (August 18, 2008)</ref>
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<ref name="tnmfyp">''The Bridge to a New Life'': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/message-young-people New Message for Young People]</ref>
  
 
"With those with whom you
 
"With those with whom you
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you, and this is often the case. Perhaps you will even be angry at this
 
you, and this is often the case. Perhaps you will even be angry at this
 
curriculum which seeks only to serve you. Why would you be angry
 
curriculum which seeks only to serve you. Why would you be angry
at this curriculum? Because [[Knowledge]] flushes out everything that
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at [[The Way of Knowledge|this curriculum]]? Because [[Knowledge]] flushes out everything that
 
stands in its way.That is why at times you are angry and do not even
 
stands in its way.That is why at times you are angry and do not even
 
know why."
 
know why."
<ref>[[Steps to Knowledge]], [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step86-I-honor-those-who-have-given-to-me.htm Step 86]: I honor those who have given to me.</ref>
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<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step86-I-honor-those-who-have-given-to-me.htm Step 86]: I honor those who have given to me.</ref>
  
== Quotes About Anger in the World ==
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== Quotes about anger in the world ==
  
"Around you there will be confusion, anger and conflict as people are deprived, as people feel threatened, as the security of people everywhere becomes challenged. You will see individuals and groups reacting with rage and indignation. You will see nations threatening one another, for this is already happening. And the great conflicts that will emerge and the great danger of war will all be masked by politics and religion, when in fact the conflict is over resources. Who will have these resources? Who will control these resources?"
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"Around you there will be [[confusion]], anger and [[conflict]] as people are deprived, as people feel threatened, as the security of people everywhere becomes challenged. You will see individuals and groups reacting with rage and indignation. You will see nations threatening one another, for this is already happening. And the great conflicts that will emerge and the great danger of war will all be masked by politics and religion, when in fact the conflict is over resources. Who will have these resources? Who will control these resources?"
 
<ref>Preparing for the Great Waves of Change (July 27, 2007)</ref>
 
<ref>Preparing for the Great Waves of Change (July 27, 2007)</ref>
  
"In order for you to prepare yourself for a future that will be unlike the past, in order for you to avoid calamity and disaster, you must take heed. You must stop. You must restrain your anger and your passions."
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"In order for you to prepare yourself for a future that will be unlike the past, in order for you to avoid calamity and disaster, you must take heed. You must stop. You must [[Restraint|restrain]] your anger and your passions." <ref>''The New World Prophecy'': [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/the-fate-of-nations The Fate of Nations]</ref>
<ref>''The New World'': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/new-world/the-fate-of-nations The Fate of Nations and Peoples]</ref>
 
  
"Around you there will be increasing discord, anger,
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"Around you there will be increasing [[discord]], anger,
frustration, chaos and confusion. People will be upset. People
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frustration, [[chaos]] and confusion. People will be upset. People
 
will be enraged. People will be living in anxiety. People will be
 
will be enraged. People will be living in anxiety. People will be
 
having great difficulty. Here you can only look to other
 
having great difficulty. Here you can only look to other
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"The work of God is everywhere, but who can see it?
 
"The work of God is everywhere, but who can see it?
People are obsessing over human error and human tragedy, constantly complaining about the world and venting their anger and frustration upon others.
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People are [[Obsession|obsessing]] over human error and human tragedy, constantly complaining about the world and venting their anger and frustration upon others.
 
God is with them, but they are looking in another direction."
 
God is with them, but they are looking in another direction."
<ref>[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/gods-power-in-you God’s Power & Presence in the World] (April 23, 2011)</ref>
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<ref>''The New God Experience'': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-4/the-new-god-experience/gods-power-in-you God's Power and Presence in the World]</ref>
  
"No one can tolerate peace for long because if your environment is
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"No one can tolerate [[peace]] for long because if your environment is
 
peaceful, your anger begins to come forth. If your environment is not
 
peaceful, your anger begins to come forth. If your environment is not
 
peaceful, you do not realize your own anger. If I took you and put you in
 
peaceful, you do not realize your own anger. If I took you and put you in
 
a room with no stimulation at all, a very peaceful room with no [[aggravation]],
 
a room with no stimulation at all, a very peaceful room with no [[aggravation]],
your own anger would come forth.You would realize that you are at
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your own anger would come forth. You would realize that you are at
war already.You are struggling against your own Knowledge.You are fighting
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war already. You are struggling against your own [[Knowledge]]. You are fighting
with yourself.That is why there is not peace in the world.There is
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with yourself. That is why there is not peace in the world. There is
 
only peace to the extent that people can stand it."
 
only peace to the extent that people can stand it."
<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/health Chapter 6: Health]</ref>
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<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 6: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/health Health]</ref>
  
 
"The world is a very tough place to give in because people are
 
"The world is a very tough place to give in because people are
 
ambivalent about getting well. There is a great deal of harshness and anger
 
ambivalent about getting well. There is a great deal of harshness and anger
 
here."
 
here."
<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/giving-i Chapter 15: Giving I]</ref>
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<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 15: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/giving-i Giving 1]]</ref>
  
 
==Anger a betrayal of intention ==
 
==Anger a betrayal of intention ==
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<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step44-I-wish-to-know-my-own-strength.htm Step 44]: I wish to know my own strength.</ref>
 
<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step44-I-wish-to-know-my-own-strength.htm Step 44]: I wish to know my own strength.</ref>
  
"There are those who are focused only on political freedom or economic freedom or social freedom. This is a very important contribution to many people, and it may be their ultimate purpose to do this, but the question is, are they free within themselves? Is their motivation based upon love and compassion for people? Or is it driven by anger and hostility, resentment and regret? Is their gift real and authentic, or is it tainted and polluted?"
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"There are those who are focused only on political [[freedom]] or economic freedom or social freedom. This is a very important contribution to many people, and it may be their ultimate purpose to do this, but the question is, are they free within themselves? Is their motivation based upon love and compassion for people? Or is it driven by anger and hostility, resentment and regret? Is their gift real and authentic, or is it tainted and polluted?"
 
<ref>''The Journey to a New Life'', Chapter 2: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/journey-new-life/freedom-journey The Freedom Journey]</ref>
 
<ref>''The Journey to a New Life'', Chapter 2: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/journey-new-life/freedom-journey The Freedom Journey]</ref>
  
 
"If your heart is full of grievance and anger, hatred and resentment, even if life gave you opportunities, gave you social power or gave you political power, you could only usher in a new form of oppression, for oppression is always filled with anger, fear and resentment. It always runs counter to the natural state of human beings that the Creator of all life has created."
 
"If your heart is full of grievance and anger, hatred and resentment, even if life gave you opportunities, gave you social power or gave you political power, you could only usher in a new form of oppression, for oppression is always filled with anger, fear and resentment. It always runs counter to the natural state of human beings that the Creator of all life has created."
<ref name="tnmftiao">The New Message for the Impoverished and Oppressed (April 18, 2008)</ref>
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<ref name="tnmftiao">''The Reformation'': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/the-reformation/the-new-message-for-the-impoverished-and-oppressed The New Message for the Impoverished and Oppressed]</ref>
  
"Before you can change the world, you must change yourself. Before you can bring something greater to others, you must receive something greater yourself. Your ideas, your protests and your anger only add to the ideas and the protests and the anger of the world around you until there is a greater inspiration within you."
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"Before you can change [[the world]], you must [[change]] yourself. Before you can bring something greater to others, you must receive something greater yourself. Your ideas, your protests and your anger only add to the ideas and the protests and the anger of the world around you until there is a greater inspiration within you."
 
<ref name="tnmftiao"/>
 
<ref name="tnmftiao"/>
  
==Anger Incompatible with Knowledge==
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== Anger incompatible with Knowledge==
 
"As you approach [[Knowledge]], your life becomes more
 
"As you approach [[Knowledge]], your life becomes more
 
full, more certain and more direct. As you go away from it, you reenter
 
full, more certain and more direct. As you go away from it, you reenter
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you become happier and if you go away, you go back into confusion, anxiety,
 
you become happier and if you go away, you go back into confusion, anxiety,
 
anger, sadness and all forms of unhappiness."
 
anger, sadness and all forms of unhappiness."
<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', Chapter 22: Escaping Suffering</ref>
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<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 22: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/problem-suffering-greater-happiness Escaping Suffering]</ref>
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"If you violate yourself, you will feel violated, and you will be angry and frustrated. And this anger and frustration will be projected upon others in the form of accusations, blame and condemnation. You will hate others for the things that you yourself cannot accomplish. You will point the finger at other people’s failures because they represent your own. Everyone has much work to do in this regard. No one is exempt."[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/freedom-from-addiction-and-obsession Freedom from Addiction and Obsession]</ref>
  
"[[Knowledge]]
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"Knowledge represents a greater [[judgment]], but it is a judgment that is very different
represents a greater judgment, but it is a judgment that is very different
 
 
from your own, for it is not born of fear. It does not possess anger."
 
from your own, for it is not born of fear. It does not possess anger."
 
<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step60-I-will-not-judge-the-world-today.htm Step 60]: I will not judge the world today.</ref>
 
<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step60-I-will-not-judge-the-world-today.htm Step 60]: I will not judge the world today.</ref>
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"Even anger serves a
 
"Even anger serves a
 
greater purpose here, for it shows you that you have violated
 
greater purpose here, for it shows you that you have violated
[[Knowledge]]. Though your anger may not be directed towards another,
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Knowledge. Though your anger may not be directed towards another,
 
it is simply a sign that something has gone wrong and that correction
 
it is simply a sign that something has gone wrong and that correction
 
has to be made."
 
has to be made."
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"Anger and resentment are filled with personal projection and blame. That is because people are hurt, and when they are hurt, they want to react, they want to fight back and they want to get their pain out of their mind and give it away to someone else, usually to the person whom they think is the source of their pain."
 
"Anger and resentment are filled with personal projection and blame. That is because people are hurt, and when they are hurt, they want to react, they want to fight back and they want to get their pain out of their mind and give it away to someone else, usually to the person whom they think is the source of their pain."
<ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', Chapter 14: Completing Relationships</ref>
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<ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', Chapter 14: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/completing-relationships-when-over Completing Relationships]</ref>
  
 
"Anger is unjustified, for anger alone is merely your
 
"Anger is unjustified, for anger alone is merely your
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response. As a response it can generate anger in others and stimulate a
 
response. As a response it can generate anger in others and stimulate a
 
violent response internally and externally wherever it is applied."
 
violent response internally and externally wherever it is applied."
<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step241-My-anger-is-unjustified.htm Step 241]: My anger is unjustified.</ref>
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<ref name="stk241"/>
  
 
"If you become concerned for the world, you will become frightened
 
"If you become concerned for the world, you will become frightened
 
and angry, and this fear and anger can overtake you at any time."
 
and angry, and this fear and anger can overtake you at any time."
<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/fulfillment Chapter 19: Fulfillment]</ref>
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<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 19: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/fulfillment Fulfillment]</ref>
  
 
"Either the Creator is guiding
 
"Either the Creator is guiding
 
you in your leadership or something else is guiding you—anger, desire for
 
you in your leadership or something else is guiding you—anger, desire for
 
power, [[grief]] or vengeance."
 
power, [[grief]] or vengeance."
<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/provoking-change Chapter 33: Provoking Change]</ref>
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<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 33:  [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/provoking-change Provoking Change]</ref>
  
==Quotes About Anger and Romantic disappointment==
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==Quotes about anger and romantic disappointment==
  
 
"People can be mesmerized by each other for years and never have
 
"People can be mesmerized by each other for years and never have
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association is shallow and temporary. Then there is great disappointment,
 
association is shallow and temporary. Then there is great disappointment,
 
anger and resentment."
 
anger and resentment."
<ref>''Greater Community Spirituality'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/greater-community-spirituality/what-must-be-avoided Chapter 14: What must be avoided?]</ref>
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<ref>''Greater Community Spirituality'', Chapter 14: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/greater-community-spirituality/what-must-be-avoided What must be avoided?]</ref>
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
 
<references/>
 
<references/>
  
==See Also==
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==See also==
 
[[Aggravation]]
 
[[Aggravation]]
  
==Further Study==
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==Further study==
  
 
*''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step241-My-anger-is-unjustified.htm Step 241]:  My anger is unjustified.
 
*''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step241-My-anger-is-unjustified.htm Step 241]:  My anger is unjustified.
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*[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/dealing-with-anger-and-frustration Dealing with Anger and Frustration] (August 5)

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"All happiness emanates from the fulfillment of your purpose in the world. All sadness, anger and confusion result from the denial of this purpose." [1]

"All anger comes from confusion." [2]

"What has disappointed you but the misappropriation of your abilities? What grieves and angers you but the misappropriation of other people’s abilities." [3]

"Relationships which are used to fulfill fantasy and idealism must always go astray and end in anger and disappointment." [4]

"Let not the injustices of this world stimulate your anger, for if they do, you are looking without Knowledge. You are seeing your own failed idealism." [5]

"Fear breeds hatred and distrust, anger and retribution." [6]

"Anger is unjustified, for anger alone is merely your response to your failure to apply Knowledge." [7]

"An angry God is the projection and creation of angry people."[8]

Cognitive dissonance by horyokun.png

Quotes about anger avoidance

"It is really necessary to begin to explore your own feelings. If you cannot feel anger, then you will not feel love. If you cannot feel sadness, how can you experience affinity with anyone? If you are choked because of the suppression of these things, then your mind will be unclear, your senses will be dulled and your expression will be oppressed." [9]

Directives

"This is a time now to stop blaming others, to end your ceaseless debates, to set aside your grievances and your hostilities, to face the fact that you are going to have to live life much more simply in the future. You will be living in a world of great resource restraints. You will not be able to get around very easily. Everything will be very expensive and there will have to be a great emphasis on producing food and other necessary things on a much more local scale. There will have to be tremendous restraint of anger, blame and hostility if people are to make this necessary transition. So many assumptions and beliefs will have to be set aside to face the reality of your situation." [10]

"Do not waste your time and energy being angry at the world, condemning the world."[11]

"Unless you can really change something yourself or be a part of a group of people who can really change something, do not condemn things. Do not condemn people, organizations or governments unless you alone or you in concert with others can really change something. Do not sit idly and condemn the world. This is like slitting your wrists and letting the blood flow out. It is such a great loss of energy, and it gives you nothing. It takes you nowhere. It might seem self-satisfying in the moment. It might seem very justified in the moment, but it is really wasteful, and it just adds more anger and criticism into the mental environment of the world—things which the world does not need." [11]

"With those with whom you are angry and upset, try to see how they, too, have given service to you in the reclamation of Knowledge. Do not bear false witness against your feelings, but in spite of your feelings towards them, if there are ill feelings, attempt also to recognize their service to you. For you can indeed be angered or upset by someone that you recognize has served you, and this is often the case. Perhaps you will even be angry at this curriculum which seeks only to serve you. Why would you be angry at this curriculum? Because Knowledge flushes out everything that stands in its way.That is why at times you are angry and do not even know why." [12]

Quotes about anger in the world

"Around you there will be confusion, anger and conflict as people are deprived, as people feel threatened, as the security of people everywhere becomes challenged. You will see individuals and groups reacting with rage and indignation. You will see nations threatening one another, for this is already happening. And the great conflicts that will emerge and the great danger of war will all be masked by politics and religion, when in fact the conflict is over resources. Who will have these resources? Who will control these resources?" [13]

"In order for you to prepare yourself for a future that will be unlike the past, in order for you to avoid calamity and disaster, you must take heed. You must stop. You must restrain your anger and your passions." [14]

"Around you there will be increasing discord, anger, frustration, chaos and confusion. People will be upset. People will be enraged. People will be living in anxiety. People will be having great difficulty. Here you can only look to other individuals who are responding with Knowledge and to Knowledge within yourself, for around you everyone else will be panicking or will be trying to fool themselves increasingly in the face of great change." [15]

"The work of God is everywhere, but who can see it? People are obsessing over human error and human tragedy, constantly complaining about the world and venting their anger and frustration upon others. God is with them, but they are looking in another direction." [16]

"No one can tolerate peace for long because if your environment is peaceful, your anger begins to come forth. If your environment is not peaceful, you do not realize your own anger. If I took you and put you in a room with no stimulation at all, a very peaceful room with no aggravation, your own anger would come forth. You would realize that you are at war already. You are struggling against your own Knowledge. You are fighting with yourself. That is why there is not peace in the world. There is only peace to the extent that people can stand it." [17]

"The world is a very tough place to give in because people are ambivalent about getting well. There is a great deal of harshness and anger here." [18]

Anger a betrayal of intention

"How can you approach your strength when you feel weak and helpless, when you feel unworthy, if you are burdened by guilt or confusion or in anger blame others for your own apparent failures? To claim your strength means to release all that holds you back." [19]

"There are those who are focused only on political freedom or economic freedom or social freedom. This is a very important contribution to many people, and it may be their ultimate purpose to do this, but the question is, are they free within themselves? Is their motivation based upon love and compassion for people? Or is it driven by anger and hostility, resentment and regret? Is their gift real and authentic, or is it tainted and polluted?" [20]

"If your heart is full of grievance and anger, hatred and resentment, even if life gave you opportunities, gave you social power or gave you political power, you could only usher in a new form of oppression, for oppression is always filled with anger, fear and resentment. It always runs counter to the natural state of human beings that the Creator of all life has created." [21]

"Before you can change the world, you must change yourself. Before you can bring something greater to others, you must receive something greater yourself. Your ideas, your protests and your anger only add to the ideas and the protests and the anger of the world around you until there is a greater inspiration within you." [21]

Anger incompatible with Knowledge

"As you approach Knowledge, your life becomes more full, more certain and more direct. As you go away from it, you reenter confusion, frustration and anger." [22]

"If you go towards Knowledge, you become happier and if you go away, you go back into confusion, anxiety, anger, sadness and all forms of unhappiness." [23]

"If you violate yourself, you will feel violated, and you will be angry and frustrated. And this anger and frustration will be projected upon others in the form of accusations, blame and condemnation. You will hate others for the things that you yourself cannot accomplish. You will point the finger at other people’s failures because they represent your own. Everyone has much work to do in this regard. No one is exempt."Freedom from Addiction and Obsession</ref>

"Knowledge represents a greater judgment, but it is a judgment that is very different from your own, for it is not born of fear. It does not possess anger." [24]

"Even anger serves a greater purpose here, for it shows you that you have violated Knowledge. Though your anger may not be directed towards another, it is simply a sign that something has gone wrong and that correction has to be made." [25]

"Anger and resentment are filled with personal projection and blame. That is because people are hurt, and when they are hurt, they want to react, they want to fight back and they want to get their pain out of their mind and give it away to someone else, usually to the person whom they think is the source of their pain." [26]

"Anger is unjustified, for anger alone is merely your response to your failure to apply Knowledge. This engenders anger at its very source. But this need not happen, because anger is a response. As a response it can generate anger in others and stimulate a violent response internally and externally wherever it is applied." [7]

"If you become concerned for the world, you will become frightened and angry, and this fear and anger can overtake you at any time." [27]

"Either the Creator is guiding you in your leadership or something else is guiding you—anger, desire for power, grief or vengeance." [28]

Quotes about anger and romantic disappointment

"People can be mesmerized by each other for years and never have any sense of who the other person is. And yet when they finally become sober, as life sobers them through its hardships and its challenges, they find that they are not really compatible with each other and that their association is shallow and temporary. Then there is great disappointment, anger and resentment." [29]

References

  1. Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 4: Your Relationship with the World
  2. Steps to Knowledge, Step 260: I am a friend of the world today.
  3. Steps to Knowledge, Step 83: I value Knowledge beyond all things.
  4. Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 3: Your Relationship with Others
  5. Steps to Knowledge, Step 101: The world needs me, but I will wait.
  6. Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 24: Happiness in the World
  7. 7.0 7.1 Steps to Knowledge, Step 241: My anger is unjustified.
  8. The Power of Knowledge, Chapter 13: The Spiritual Fire
  9. The Great Practices: The Watchtower
  10. The New World Prophecy : Navigating the Difficult Times Ahead
  11. 11.0 11.1 The Bridge to a New Life: New Message for Young People
  12. Steps to Knowledge, Step 86: I honor those who have given to me.
  13. Preparing for the Great Waves of Change (July 27, 2007)
  14. The New World Prophecy: The Fate of Nations
  15. The Great Waves of Change, Chapter 3: Escaping the Past
  16. The New God Experience: God's Power and Presence in the World
  17. Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 6: Health
  18. Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 15: Giving 1]
  19. Steps to Knowledge, Step 44: I wish to know my own strength.
  20. The Journey to a New Life, Chapter 2: The Freedom Journey
  21. 21.0 21.1 The Reformation: The New Message for the Impoverished and Oppressed
  22. Steps to Knowledge, Step 37: There is a way to Knowledge.
  23. Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 22: Escaping Suffering
  24. Steps to Knowledge, Step 60: I will not judge the world today.
  25. Steps to Knowledge, Step 89: My emotions cannot dissuade my Knowledge.
  26. Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 14: Completing Relationships
  27. Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 19: Fulfillment
  28. Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 33: Provoking Change
  29. Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 14: What must be avoided?

See also

Aggravation

Further study

  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 241: My anger is unjustified.