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Imagine anger as a sign not of moral failure or justified outrage but the desire to care for anotherMaking sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday lifeAnger is an emotion we are taught to manage, control and suppress. But what if anger is, as poet David Whyte says, one of the deepest possible forms of compassion available to humankind?Philosophers and theologians have long distinguished between virtuous and non-virtuous anger. Aristotle defined anger as “a desire, accompanied by pain, for apparent retribution, aroused by an apparent, undeserved slighting against oneself or those connected to oneself”. Continue reading...

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