Rajneesh Quotes

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

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

As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

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.

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

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 we are angry, our anger is our very self. To suppress or chase away our anger is to suppress or chase away ourselves. When anger is born, we can be aware that anger is an energy in us, and we can change that energy into another kind of energy. If we want to transform it, first we have to know how to accept it.

Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness

Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness.

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

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

I was once a fairly angry person.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

He who angers you conquers you.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

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.