Affirmations

• Always rely on a happy mind alone.

• Remember to acknowledge the angry stirrings in your mind for what they are, realize that allowing them to grow will only result in suffering, and then make a free and conscious decision to respond more constructively.
  

• It's through your own anger and hatred that you transform people into enemies.

• By training yourself to look at frustrating situations in a more realistic manner, you can free yourself from a lot of unnecessary mental suffering.

• Because it is based on exaggeration, anger is an unrealistic mind.

• Problems do not exist outside your mind, so when you stop seeing other people as problems they stop being problems.

Photo: Soto Zen Buddhist Association of North America, SZBA.org