Concept

Resentment

4 passages · 4 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…

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…

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