Alan Cohen Quotes

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.

I just try to stay cool, calm and collected.

Try to understand why it is happening, from where it is coming, where the roots are, how it happens, how it functions, how it overpowers you, how in anger you become mad. Anger has happened before, it is happening now, but now add a new element to it, the element of understanding -- and then the quality will change. Then, by and by, you will see that the more you understand anger, the less it happens. And when you understand it perfectly, it disappears. Understanding is like heat. When the heat comes to a particular point -- one hundred degrees -- the water disappears.

I'm not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.

I started teaching myself, taking a breath or a moment that's not overreacting or having an explosion. It made me such a better person. Let alone a better mother, but also just a better human.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

I control my anger.

I snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen. I am so not Zen. Whatever Zen is, I'm the opposite of it.

I don't really get angry any more.

You know how some people get worked up about things? That's a very human thing to do. Sometimes, I don't know - like, I feel like I don't want to waste my energy doing stuff like that. I think about this on the court, too.

I'm still trying to figure out being calm.