Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Anger's Feast

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of butter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you giving back - in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

- Frederick Buechner in Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC

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