Fight against Anger
How should you fight against anger? Father Thaddeus raised this question
himself, as if knowing that I was going to ask him. He gave me the example of two
monks of the Holy Mountain who fought against the temptation of anger for 14 years.
Once the Lord Jesus Christ
appeared to one of them and said that anger is conquered by giving up one's own
desires and will.
If we do not put ourselves in the place of the judge and be exalted
before others, there will be no anger. It's the same with non-peace; our non-peaceful
thoughts cause anxiety in the people with whom we communicate. It is necessary to
learn to control your thoughts, to bring order to them, then the thoughts of other
people will not harm us. One must learn Christ's simplicity. It often happens that
when we are going to visit someone, we already think in advance that perhaps we
will interfere with him, and then our visit does not work out as it should, because
we come in embarrassment and make on the one to whom we came, negative action.
There is no humility until the heart calms down and begins to dispassionately
perceive external influences. Such a state is not easy to achieve, and it does not
mean insensitivity to the pain and suffering of others, but indifference to our
own demands, which often cause our suffering.
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