Being Fear, Impatience and Passion Fear, passion and impatience are behind much of the suffering created in the twentieth century. Fear is harmful if it prevents people from doing what it is right or necessary.
Impatience is a work of ignorance.
There is nothing wrong with passion, but it is too often over-reaction, accompanied by too little thought, and too often it intensifies conflicts to no good end. . We respond much with our emotions, but if we ignore reason, if we ignore our mental map, we can get lost and go in circles. The Lutheran and the Lawnmower A middleaged man was moving the grass on the side of the Lutheran Church in a residential neighborhood that I pass daily. It was a lovely Thursday at noon, rather quiet except for the howl of his lawnmower. If he had been using an old fashioned non-motorized mower he would have appeared most reverential.