Fire is a chemical process of combustion. We all know that. It’s a very painful way to injure oneself. We know that too. But fire is also something else: a stimulus that works very hard to get you to avoid it. I’m sure you’d rather not get critically burned by fire–well, fire doesn’t want you to get burned by it either. So it does everything it can to get you out of its way.
Fire doesn’t like being touched. If you try to put your hand in fire, it will quickly let you know that it doesn’t think your hand belongs there. Fire works very hard to do what it does. One could say, fire is passionate about what it does. You can resist up to a certain point, but most people get the message at some point. It’s message is that it is radical, very conservative, and just doesn’t want to be bothered.
Fire is not your enemy, as long as you don’t offend it. Respect it for what it is, and it will let you live in peace. Fire is passive anger. We all understand anger. And we can all understand fire too if we simply listen to its message.
