Holding onto bitterness, resentment or anger is mental torture
Holding on to what disturbs my mental peace is like building emotional walls. They keep the pain inside.
I’m the source of my own suffering. External experiences – people, situations, and things – come and go. But when I attach myself to the pain they bring, I become stuck in it.
The real problem isn’t the event or the person who upset me. It’s my attachment to the anger, my refusal to let go. The longer I hold on, the more it eats away at my peace. What’s worse, it doesn’t change what happened.
No amount of bitterness can undo the past.
If an experience disturbs my inner peace, it controls my emotional energy. That’s a hard truth, but it’s true. When I let anger, resentment, or bitterness take over, I lose control of my own mind.
My thoughts keep replaying what happened, imagining different outcomes, or wishing I’d said or done something different. I give my power away to something outside of me. And the more I focus on it, the more it controls me.
Holding on to what disturbs mental peace is like building emotional walls. They keep the pain inside, but they also block out joy, peace, connection with others.
