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So, what are you reading?
I'm halfway through al-Ghazali's The Banes of the Tongue. In particular, this is a piece of wisdom which I ought to follow more:
It would be both amusing and dismaying to see what kind of trial I would receive if I was to be judged by what I have mentally said about many public figures in comparison to what they actually deserve.
It often seems like there is a part of my mind which can never shut up about its anger. But there's a common game that people play in bodycam videos where a suspect (who also seems incapable of shutting up) points in some random direction and says to the officer "don't you have better things to do, like arrest another [unspecified evil person, drug dealer, etc.]?" I imagine that mental anger, at least in some forms, plays a similar role: "look over there [and not at oneself]!"
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