Pain, the Price of Freedom

 If i see an injustice it causes pain, sometimes very much pain. Am i just to accept it?, walk away from it and pretend that it does not affect me, let it pass through my heart like the wind? I will stop the pain, but is it right?

 No, you do what you can, what you are called to do, that which comes up naturally. When you play tennis, accepting the ball that your adversary has sent your way includes your doing your utmost to send it back. It is all a dance, a continuity. Don't artificially cut off your response and call it acceptance although acceptance at time will mean accepting our powerlessness as with the death of a loved one. All the best.

If you see the emotion as energy it's fascinating. For example if it's anger I let it run through me and let it spiral up into a call for action, for something to be done. Instead of it closing and spiraling down into resentment.

I would love a spiritual answer for this. When I see a dog on a chain and it's 100 degrees out or it's freezing and it's suffering but where I live has almost no animal welfare laws to help it, what do I do? I've actually gotten a death threat from a "good ole boy" because I challenged the laws. So I just witness the suffering and go on peacefully with my life?