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Impulsiveness is a form of Imbalance

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IMPULSES

“Training means to make the muscles that carry out your impulses, to make the muscles carry out those impulses only that are in accord with a leading principle. If your leading principle is to adjust to a group, and you mean it, then you will not permit your muscles to carry out a crime. That’s out of the question. The impulse will be there, but [you] will not permit it to see the light of day.”

Manage Your Fears, Manage Your Anger, page 281

BALANCE

“Whenever you reach the point where most of your actions are controlled and only part of your actions are easily expressed, then you have balance…and that is that kind of balance in which the group reactions predominate over the individualistic reactions, and that’s the only kind of balance we want in life: the balance in which control predominates over reckless expression.”
Manage Your Fears, Manage Your Anger, page 231

VANITY IS NOT PRIDE

Then the patient comes here to Recovery, and he is given his training, and what does he learn? He learns to ignore his sensations by knowing
they are distressing but not dangerous. He learns to hold down his
feelings because he knows - his feelings and impulses - because he knows that the impulses and the promptings of the feelings can be resisted by using muscles, with simple methods. And once he has learned that, he holds down impulses, sensations and feelings, especially the negative feelings of which I spoke to you already. And then he shows his strength, strength of character, strength of will, because character and will have precisely this function, to hold down impulses.

Manage Your Fears, Manage Your Anger, lecture 32, pages 199-200