Less is more - Purgatory XV

Blinded by the Light: When Anger Management Goes Divine! 👼✨

Ready for the ultimate spiritual glow-up? In Purgatory's 15th canto, Dante gets one P lighter—bye-bye envy!—before being absolutely BLINDED by an angel whose radiance makes the sun look like a desk lamp! 🔆 Our poet then experiences the weirdest TED talk on anger management: three divine visions showing what happens when you choose peace over rage. From Mary finding teenage Jesus in the temple (original "where were you young man?!" moment 👪) to Pisistratus forgiving a PDA scandal, to Stephen literally blessing his murderers while they're stoning him—talk about extreme forgiveness!

The real mic drop? 🎤 Virgil's explanation that material goods create competition (your medieval "more for you means less for me"), while spiritual goods like love multiply when shared! Think of it as the world's first lesson on abundance mindset versus scarcity thinking. But just when Dante's feeling spiritually enlightened, he stumbles into what might be the worst smoke machine effect ever—a suffocating fog designed to make the wrathful experience the blindness their anger caused! 💨 The medieval equivalent of a timeout, but way more intense!

This canto brilliantly teaches us that true wealth isn't what you hoard but what you share, and that controlling your anger doesn't make you weak—it makes you powerful enough to break cycles of violence. 💪 As Dante struggles through the smoke, he reminds us that sometimes the path to enlightenment requires enduring temporary discomfort. Modern translation? Maybe skip that angry tweet and take a deep breath instead! #DivineComedy #LifeLessons #AngerManagementMedieval