Student:

When I am angry I fell very vital. I feel good in this vitality. How can I deal with anger when I feel this way?

Jean Klein:

Anger is a reaction which destroys all beauty in you. See the mechanism, otherwise you remain in a chain of reactions where there is no exit. Then you are like a fly who bangs against the window a thousand times.

Before you look at the mechanism you must accept that there is something to look at, psychological resistance. Contemplate it. Even love it. It is compressed energy. When you look at it, objectify it, you are no longer an accomplice with the reaction.

So accept your anger, welcome it. This is not a psychological acceptance which is the person making a kind of sacrifice. It is a functional acceptance, an openness to the facts. In this acceptance there comes a distancing between observer and observed. In this position you already feel the breath of your real nature. And the fixed energy dissolves in you.

So be aware not only of your surroundings but especially of your nearest surroundings, body, senses and mind. Of course reaction belongs to being human but come out of being bound to reactions, to biology and psychology. In your language you say you must come out of the teufelskreis — the circle of the devil.