2 Chronicles 26:19 · World English Bible
Then Uzziah was angry. He had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in Yahweh’s house, beside the altar of incense.
Anger flaring at the seat of consciousness corrupts the very center it rises in. The forehead is the center of consciousness in a person, and the leprosy breaking out across it is the life force being eaten away by a mind turned wrathful.
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Anger flaring at the seat of consciousness corrupts the very center it rises in. The forehead is the center of consciousness in a person, and the leprosy breaking out across it is the life force being eaten away by a mind turned wrathful. What should have stayed clear at the front of the head goes white and dead the instant rage takes it.
The corruption appears at the altar, in the house, which is the man himself standing in his own inner sanctuary. Wrath handled where devotion should be lifted does not merely spoil an act; it spreads back into the ruling center and wastes it. The higher work of the head cannot be seized in anger without the anger consuming the one who reaches for it.
Forehead: the center of consciousness in a person, the ruling front of the mind House: yourself, the inner sanctuary a person stands within Altar: the head, the raised place where devotion is meant to lift Censer: the incense gland within the brain
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What did my anger cost me today, and what did it actually fix?
Overcome anger by not being angry. The one who holds back rising anger like a chariot is the real driver; everyone else merely holds the reins.
He wrote a whole book on anger and called it the most ruinous of the passions, the one that destroys the person holding it faster than the person it is aimed at. No cause is worth the cost of carrying it.
Water takes the lowest place and overcomes the hard by yielding. Force applied out of pride never accomplishes what it set out to do.
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