Just very recently, I had witnessed fury like never before; most definitely more fury than most of you would witness on an ordinary day.

Besides making me wary, excessive exhibitions of anger deeply disturb me because they speak of a person's lack of self-awareness and inability to master one's own interiority; perhaps even a lack or an absence of a relationship with the Divine source of peace. It also betrays a person's lack of peace with one's self.

Our sense of interiority comes from an unseen Reality. It is a Reality that we know is greater than ourselves and whom we acknowledge to be in total control of the outcome of all situations in life. When our interiority is grounded in this Reality, so is our sense of peaceful security.

When this heart of mine beats to the rhythm of the Divine Life within me and without me, when I am at peace with who I am and whose I am, the energies of my soul are recollected. Then uninhibited anger has no hold over me.

I shall walk in a world - daily - that constantly threatens to demean me, to betray me, and to abuse me. But when I walk to the rhythm of the Divine Life, the value I place upon myself will not be contingent upon what a violent world does to me. And even when I am hurt and abused, I shall not be an angry man. I can, and I shall, forgive.

A young friend of mine has just taught me these words: "Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me".