- If someone asked you how to write your name, would you
clench your teeth and spit out the letters one by one? If he lost
his temper, would you lose yours as well? Or would you just
spell out the individual letters?
Remember—your responsibilities can be broken down
into individual parts as well. Concentrate on those, and finish
the job methodically—without getting stirred up or meeting
anger with anger.
- How cruel—to forbid people to want what they think is
good for them. And yet that’s just what you won’t let them do
when you get angry at their misbehavior. They’re drawn
toward what they think is good for them.
—But it’s not good for them.Then show them that. Prove it to them. Instead of losing
your temper.
- Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled
by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our
bodies. - Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still
going strong. - To escape imperialization—that indelible stain. It