Quotes From The Top Of The Mind

Quote: "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire." - Bill Crawford Comment: I have chosen this bit of prose as this week's quote because of its insight into the advisability of holding on to anger. Of course, there are very few who would say that harboring feelings of anger for any length of time is a good idea. However, I feel certain that most people would acknowledge that this tendency to hold on to resentment and frustration or run the images of being "wronged" over and over in our mind is quite common. Therefore, maybe the first question we should address is "why?" In other words, why do we tend to hold on to our anger when "logically" this doesn't make any sense? Certainly we were not born this way. Could it be that early on, we saw the powerful people in our lives use anger to enforce their will, and learned that anger makes one powerful? Could it be that we saw people take advantage of others until finally they got so angry that th