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I have been here before, I'll most likely get back again.
The most important thing to know about hate is that it is a drug. The more of it you have, the less of everything else you can see, and the more it becomes the center of your world. You have to let it go. Even those who do you ill are not deserving of the energy you commit to hate them. Know that you cannot trust them. Maybe even that you do not like them. But they probably will never know you hate them, and if they did, they probably wouldn't care. The only one who carries that hate, boiling in the gut and eating away at everything, is you. The terrorists did something terrible and you cannot trust them. But to hate them blinds you to everything else. The politicians want you to fear and hate. Hate is the jeering brother to anger, and just waits for him to arrive. When you are angry, when you are afraid, you can be more easily controlled. The terrorists want to control you with fear, the haters want to control you with anger and hate. You are too good for that. I don't like cheese. I don't eat cheese. I don't have to hate cheese. Or cats. Or Rednecks. Or ballet. Or Rednecks & Cats dancing ballet while eating cheese. Hate is their weapon. But as Bruce Lee said, "The only man who can be disarmed is the man who picks up a weapon in the first place." Let the hate roll off you, and you will make them angry. And then you can out-think them. And thinking is more powerful than hating any day.
The most important thing to know about hate is that it is a drug. The more of it you have, the less of everything else you can see, and the more it becomes the center of your world. You have to let it go. Even those who do you ill are not deserving of the energy you commit to hate them. Know that you cannot trust them. Maybe even that you do not like them. But they probably will never know you hate them, and if they did, they probably wouldn't care. The only one who carries that hate, boiling in the gut and eating away at everything, is you. The terrorists did something terrible and you cannot trust them. But to hate them blinds you to everything else. The politicians want you to fear and hate. Hate is the jeering brother to anger, and just waits for him to arrive. When you are angry, when you are afraid, you can be more easily controlled. The terrorists want to control you with fear, the haters want to control you with anger and hate. You are too good for that. I don't like cheese. I don't eat cheese. I don't have to hate cheese. Or cats. Or Rednecks. Or ballet. Or Rednecks & Cats dancing ballet while eating cheese. Hate is their weapon. But as Bruce Lee said, "The only man who can be disarmed is the man who picks up a weapon in the first place." Let the hate roll off you, and you will make them angry. And then you can out-think them. And thinking is more powerful than hating any day.
