The anger usually originates in a buried need or desire, which is then expressed as condemnation or resentment of those who are allowed to have or do the forbidden thing.

Some people have the mistaken idea that holding resentments somehow protects them from making the same mistake.

Do you resent doing what you are doing? It may be your job, or you may have agreed to do something and are doing it, but part of you resents and resists it. Are you carrying unspoken resentment toward a person close to you? Do you realize that the energy you thus emanate is so harmful in its effects that you are in fact contaminating yourself as we

What the other person says will not touch off the anger and irritation in you, because compassion is the real antidote for anger. Nothing can heal anger except compassion.

people who carry a lot of anger inside without being aware of it and without expressing it are more likely to be attacked, verbally or even physically, by other angry people, and often for no apparent reason.

Repressed feelings don’t go away, instead, they get boxed up. You may think that you don’t have a particular feeling any more, but the truth is that it is still there, lying dormant like a seed, waiting for the opportunity to come alive again, perhaps in a different form, perhaps as a physical ailment. A myth in our society is that if an individual

The same is true for anger—in fact, it’s true for most extreme emotions. They are toxic fuel. There’s plenty of it out in the world, no question, but never worth the costs that come along with it.