Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
WIZARD: Or what we are.
PHILIP: I'm trying to be close to what you're saying here, Katie.
TRIP: Katie, your book is full of beautiful quotes and poems, and I
thought I'd let the Poet Laureate here who likes to speak poetry
read one of the poems in your book by Deva Premal, and then I
have a question for you following up on that. Do you want to read
this? It's an example of some of the great stuff in your book.
PHILIP: "Where I'm bound nobody knows and I'm too far gone to
take it easy, feel the grass beneath my feet as it grows, feel the
wind in my hair as it blows. I got the courage to be wrong and the
strength of a rose". A poem by Deva Premal.
KATIE DAVIS: Yes, the CD is entitled Satsang and the song is The
Strength of a Rose by Deva Premal and Miten.
TRIP: So here's my follow up question, in our culture, and I know
speculating on our culture is probably not to your liking very
much, you're kind of a Now person, but in our culture we favor an
unwavering quality in our leaders, restraint under provocation is
perceived as weakness. Why is it, do you suppose, that qualities of
true strength such as forbearance are belittled in the society as
weakness?
KATIE DAVIS: Armor. It is armor.
PHILIP: Ego armor?
KATIE DAVIS: Yes. The harder one controls usually you can tell
the more insecure they are. And to prevent the appearance of
being weak or scared, they hide insecurity with the armor of anger.
The more powerless they feel, the angrier they become. And why
is it that way? Because that is the nature of ego.
If we were to look just at the emotions, anger is the most
superficial emotion and it protects us perhaps from being sad. If
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