ALL ANGER IS VICTIM BASED

[The following is a reprint of my blog (reworked) of December 20, 2012.]

I read once, and I have come to agree, that there are only two emotions; i.e., fear and love. All other emotions are blooms of those two.

It is my contention that fear's first bud is hurt, the briefest feeling of hurt, which immediately springs forth as anger or self-pity, depending on our bent, but both are victim based. That slight feeling of unease which flashes hurt goes one of two ways: 1) anger to cover up the hurt which justifies hurting in retaliation; or 2) magnified hurt to justify hurting in retaliation.

We angry ones lie to ourselves when we believe our anger is proof of our non-victimhood. Unresolved anger is the cloak of the victim.

Same goes for self-pity which we hurt ones wear as if it were a crown of martyrdom...enviable in our own minds. Its only goal is to hold to the hurt so the one who hurt us...hurts. Self-pity is another cloak of the victim.

What we fail to understand is that all temptations to fear are projected from within our own selves. They are the ego made manifest...looking to glorify itself, to protect itself, to defend itself.

We perceive our projected fear as an attack from another that must be put down, rather than realizing it as an invitation from our own ego. Our ego always legislates for itself, attempting to show its power, i.e., the non-existence of a power greater than itself. It only succeeds in keeping God out.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself. There is no self to protect. The Father and I are One.

Thank you.