I do not know whether, or not, this will be of use, or help, to anyone else, but the hatred stirred up in me as a result of the behaviors of our sick puppy president, while understandable, is not good for me. I am trying to use the following to arrive at a more emotionally distanced response to his outrageous pronouncements:
"It is the only thing we can do, Klass, I see no alternative, each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.” Etty Hillesum, on her way to her death, at twenty-nine, in Auschwitz. From “The Open Road, The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama., pg. 203.