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Rage is often described as burning—and no wonder. The more you rely on and ‘stoke the flame,’ the bigger that flame becomes and the heightened burning. This is a slippery slope to a meta-physical place countering the fruits of the spirit—Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, & Self-control.

When does Anger (not inherently immoral) become rage? When it blinds you to reason, binds you to actions, and turns you from the resolution.

Anger can be channeled or utilized, so long as it serves a higher purpose. When properly oriented, it is a valuable tank to fuel you.

Do not become a servant to this drive, but master it and incorporate it properly. “Get thee behind me, satan.”

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Mane Message

Achilles, the greatest of the Greek warriors, was consumed by a burning rage that began with a slight against his honor. When Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek forces, took Briseis, a captive woman whom Achilles had claimed as his prize, the warrior withdrew from the fighting in fury. Feeling deeply insulted, Achilles prayed to his mother, Thetis, asking her to plead with Zeus to punish the Greeks for his humiliation. Without Achilles on the battlefield, the tide of the Trojan War began to turn in favor of the Trojans, and the Greeks suffered greatly.

But the true tragedy began when Achilles’ closest companion, Patroclus, unable to bear the Greeks' defeat, begged Achilles to let him wear his armor and lead the troops in his stead. Achilles reluctantly agreed, but Patroclus was slain by Hector, the Trojan prince. The news of Patroclus’ death struck Achilles like a thunderbolt, and his grief soon morphed into an uncontrollable rage. He returned to the battlefield, his heart burning with vengeance, and he killed Hector in a brutal duel. In his anger, Achilles desecrated Hector’s body, dragging it behind his chariot in a display of brutal triumph.

Yet, even after the killing, Achilles found no peace. His heart, once ablaze with vengeful fire, was now left in cold emptiness. The bodies of his enemies, the blood spilled on the battlefield, had not quelled the grief that gnawed at him. Rage had led him to triumph, but it had also hollowed him out. Then came Priam, an old father draped in the weight of sorrow, who, with trembling hands and a heart full of pleading, came to Achilles under the cover of night. The king spoke of the love a father feels for his son, and in that moment, Achilles saw not an enemy before him, but a mirror of his own pain. Hector and he, both sons of mighty fathers, both marked by war, were not so different after all. They shared the same fate, a fate that would bring grief to their parents, for both men were born to die on these bloodstained fields.

Achilles, moved by Priam’s words, saw in them the echo of his own father’s sorrow. The rage that had once consumed him ebbed away, replaced by a deep, quiet understanding. He had killed Hector, but in doing so, he had slain something within himself, too. The warrior who had sought vengeance now returned the body, his heart softening as he recognized the shared humanity between them. In that moment, Achilles understood that true strength was not in the bloodshed, nor in the wrath that drove him, but in the ability to see the world through the eyes of another—to feel the pain of a father losing a son, and in turn, to find a path to reconciliation.

Ancient Truth

• Caution: Your attention may submit to rage when encountering items designed to provoke a quick emotional responses.

  → People possessed by rage run the risk of sacrificing their future self to this false god. The ‘short-sighted’-ness of a hot head leaves one with sense feeling commiserative toward the enraged.

Weekly Ponder

What does it take to bring reprieve from my rage?

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