resentment, The Mechanics of Virtue, , aphorism 281

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One does not really overcome resentment; one can only preclude it. 

One trick is engineering the moment of flight by securing a victory that reflects value upon ourselves.  One might take this even further and develop a talent by repeating these moments of flight.  Now one accumulates value through the increasing number of achievements and also borrows confidence from the investment in one's future potential.


What surprises us is that one can be in this physiologically liberated state even while calculating that one only deceives oneself ... which is perfectly understandable, knowing that resentment is in precisely the opposite predicament, where one calculates freedom from resentment but cannot experience it.

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