Rajneesh Quotes

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.

For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.

Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

I was very sensitive, so when sensitivity has no place to go, it's often turned into anger or frustration.

If I was in a bad mood, then maybe I won't talk about it, but you're going to know about it somehow. If something was bothering me, maybe I would have acted a little bit like a child, meaning I go break something in a room.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

Violence was very much a part of my mother's upbringing - a little less so with my father's, but my father was an angry man when he was young. He was angry and frustrated and had no idea how to channel anger.

Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other.