Used to be when I was angry, it would boil under my skin for days, weeks, months, years before erupting in... mildly unsettling fashion.
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Now it flares up, does its thing and immediately dies down. That's a very abrupt change.
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The effects of meditation seem to be very path-dependent. Many people feel greater compassion, but I never really lacked compassion.
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Instead, I find that my tolerance for BS is disappearing awfully fast - whether it's jaded or overoptimistic BS. No patience for it anymore.
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Many of the forms we adopt - politeness, humility, patience - serve prosocial purposes, but only so long as they are applied correctly.