It is not wise to ignore anger.
Anger is a complex emotion. It can be comprised of disappointment, hurt, fear, insecurity, judgment (toward self and or others), and shame. Each of these emotional planes is a moment, sometimes a series of moments in our lives when we face confusion. But, within confusion, and within this web of internal interrelatedness exists the desire to express an idea that is suppressed. Suppressed sometimes by our actions and occasionally by the actions of others. I think of this as collective karma...the consequences of a community that culminate in the experience of one.
We may feel isolated in our anger, or we might unite in anger. Either way, we benefit from being fully with our anger--naming its complex components and allowing space for each of them. It is within the space we allow that we may expand our heart.
An expanded heart is an emotional garden in which compassion may take seed and flourish.
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