“You have to look deeper, way below the anger, the hurt, the hate, the jealousy, the self-pity, way down deeper where the dreams lie, son. Find your dream. It’s the pursuit of the dream that heals you.”

-Billy Mills (Makata Taka Hela) (1938 – ) Oglala-Lakota
(first and only American athlete to win Olympic gold for the 10,000 meters footrace)

THE HARM WE HOLD INSIDE –  “Many of us had trouble seeing how we had harmed ourselves … .” “Some of us have had a tendency to deny any responsibility, while others have taken on total blame for every disagreement. As we talk with our sponsor and other addicts, our flawed perceptions begin to fall away and we find the clarity we need … .” (It Works, How & Why, pp. 56 – 57)

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In what ways has anger caused you ‘self-inflicted wounds’, lately?

The Fox and The Snake :

Once, a fox lived in a forest. One fine morning, he was roaming around the forest and he was feeling bored.

As he was passing by, he saw a huge, thick and long snake lying under some trees. His long body stretched from one comer of the path to the .other. The fox got much impressed by the snake’s big size. He thought, “It’s such a large snake. It must eat a lot to be so big. I wish I will be as large and long as this snake. I too must lie on the ground and stretch my body. If I crawl on the rough ground and stretch my body end to end, I will surely become as long as him. I must try this at once.”

So the fox lay down on the path by the snake’s side and started stretching his body. He tried hard but his bones and muscles ached, yet he did not grow long enough. At last he stretched so hard that his stomach burst open and he died on the spot.  (http://www.english-for-students.com/The-Fox-and-The-Snake.html)