This analysis explores how compassion can calm passionate energies, suggesting emotional balance is vital for integrity.
Coping with our intensely passionate emotions and desires can be like riding a wild horse, or being inundated by a turbulent river, overflowing its banks, producing havoc for us, and for others around us. We become driven by demanding, insatiable, energies that have a counterproductive, disruptive, impact on our lives. As suggested by Rakesh Sethi.
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