Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Eknath Easwaran

When we are angry, we are punishing ourselves; anger is its own punishment. Angry thoughts go round and round like a record player. At times we forget that there is any other song in our repertoire. But there is a breathtakingly simple solution to this problem: all we need to do is reach out, lift up the needle, and move it to a new song.