"If you keep thinking, 'That man has abused me,' holding it as a much-cherished grievance, your anger will never be allayed. If you can put down that fury-inducing thought, your anger will lessen. Fury will never end fury, it will just ricochet on and on. Only putting it down will end such an abysmal state. "

- Sunnata Vagga

From The Pocket Buddha Reader,
edited by Anne Bancroft, 2001
Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston
www.shambhala.com