Concept

Resentment

A grievance you keep alive. Usually justified, usually expensive, and paid for almost entirely by you.

8 passages · 8 traditions

Astrology

DivinationA divination practice
On Mars and the oppositionAn opposition is not a wound. It is a sightline. Two planets a hundred and eighty degrees apart can only see each other, and the tradition reads that geometry as a subject a person keeps mee…

Buddhist

ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Dhammapada 3–6"They abused me, they hit me! They beat me, they robbed me!" For those who bear such a grudge, hatred is never laid to rest. "They abused me, they hit me! They beat me, they robbed me!" For…

Christian

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1 Corinthians 13:4–7Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; d…

Confucian

PhilosophyA philosophical argument
Analects XV.20–21The Master said, "What the superior man seeks, is in himself. What the mean man seeks, is in others." The Master said, "The superior man is dignified, but does not wrangle. He is sociable, b…

Jewish

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Pirke Avot 2:5Hillel said, "Separate not thyself from the congregation; trust not in thyself until the day of thy death; judge not thy neighbor until thou art come into his place; and say not anything whi…

Secular reflection

ReflectionWritten for this collection
Reflection: the account I am keepingThere is an account open in your name, and you are the only one making entries in it. That is the strange part. The person who wronged you has, in all likelihood, stopped thinking about it.…

Stoic

PhilosophyA philosophical argument
Enchiridion XLIIWhen any person does ill by you, or speaks ill of you, remember that he acts or speaks from an impression that it is right for him to do so. Now it is not possible that he should follow what…

Taoist

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Tao Teh King, ch. 63(It is the way of the Tao) to act without (thinking of) acting; to conduct affairs without (feeling the) trouble of them; to taste without discerning any flavour; to consider what is small a…

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