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Know Anger, Know Fear. No Fear, No Anger.

Mark Bennett | March 26, 2008

This is one of those things. If you do know it already (like Jon Katz), I don’t need to tell you, and if you don’t know it already, it’s not going to make any sense to you and you’re going to fight it. So here goes:

Our anger is almost always based on our fear.

“Hey, waitaminute!” [...]

Anger and Fear

Mark Bennett | September 21, 2007

Jon Katz writes about Giving Unpleasant People the Benefit of the Doubt. His message is that we should seek to eliminate anger by eliminating fear. As Paladin said, “Never draw in anger. It slows the hand.”
Jon tells a Zen story as an example of a life lived without fear:
A man is chased in the wilderness [...]