Courage to embrace anger What is courage? It derives from the Latin word cor or from French coeur, meaning “heart”. Rollo May, in his book The Courage to Create, eloquently illustrates that just as our physical heart, by pumping blood, is central to all other organs for functioning, so courage underlies all other virtues and values: “Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without…

Anger necessary for progress Is it possible to achieve anything, or grow, if we don’t get “generously angry” (George Orwell)? Anger is one of the foundations for meaningful change, evolution, expansion, betterment, progress, assertion, both on the personal, societal, and humanitarian levels: “The reasonable man adopts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress…