Anger

            Fear is the ‘base' of anger. Anger is the denial of fear. Whenever someone is angry, they are first afraid of something. In overcoming anger you have to acknowledge the underlying fear and view it dispassionately. Anger comes up in communication because we believe that people aren't "doing what their supposed to be doing," and we're afraid we won't be listened to.  However you can't assign someone a function and then get mad that they aren't performing that function. You can only recontextualize their view and expand on it, as well as being open-minded and expanding your own.

            Realize that you don't have the right to hurt or intimidate anyone. Angry people don't see themselves as victimizers, they only see themselves as "victims" and thus, paradoxically, they attack others in order to proclaim their innocence instead of taking responsibility for their anger.        

            Whenever you "attack" someone, you are first attacking your own consciousness, and you will feel the effects in your own body, and in your mind. You will not be able to escape this.

            It is also helpful to note that anger comes from a bad interpretation, because anger doesn't try to understand anything (although it may think it does). It only seeks to establish guilt and hate.

            Whenever you are angry, it is because you have focused on the form (transmission), and missed the essence (context). Try asking yourself, "Is there a way this could be true? or why is this a partial understanding? Is it possible I could be wrong? This helps to re-orient you towards finding the truth. It changes your focus from the focus on errors to the focus on truth.

            Whenever you respond to anger, you are thereby making the interpretation of hate "real" and your interpretation will not be allowed to be taken from you, or re-interpreted.

            "Remember, then, teacher of God, that anger recognizes a reality that is not there; yet is the anger certain witness that you do believe in it as fact. Now is escape impossible, until you see you have responded to your own interpretation, which you have projected on an outside world."  --ACIM 

            Let us let this sword of anger be taken from us.

            The truth will come when anger is surrendered. You need only turn within and ask authentically, "I don't know what any of this means. I want another way of seeing this," and it will be given to you.

             Be willing to trust that there is different path, which anger keeps us from seeing, and you will find it.