Anger is an active emotion usually found present at the time of every act of violence and cruelty. In the modern context, anger is considered to mean "the active feeling of provocation, passion, rage or wrath against a thing or person".  
  In our minds today an angry person is virtually synonymous with a violent person. Hence, signs of anger in public places such as trains and aircraft are now assumed to be early warning signs of potential violence and often result in the person being warned, or subdued before any potential incident.  
  Yet when the word originally came into the English language during the Middle Ages, it had a very different meaning. The word itself originates from Latin angere (anguish) and meant "that which pains, or afflicts, or the feeling which produces trouble, vexation, sorrow."  
  The root of anger is pain  
  The importance of this base to anger is critically important, as the root of anger literally and personally represent some kind of pain or anguish. A balanced person, a happy person is not in pain or anguish and so cannot be considered angry. Only a person experiencing some kind of internal anguish.  
  Anger is therefore a sign of something troubling within a person, not a cause in itself. Only by addressing the thing that is troubling a person can anger be extinguished.  
  Anger with the world and with some cosmology
  One of the most base fuels of human anger is when an issue or event causes such pain that it challenges our beliefs in our God, Allah, One Spirit or Unique Collective Awareness.
  In our time of greatest need, we feel betrayed. Our beliefs seem to brittle. There seems no rational reason to continue to believe if nothing is returned. And so the anger of loss of faith can sometimes be one of the strongest angers along with zealous devotion to a mission.
  Finding answers
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