"The Mind and the Way"

When you try to get rid of dear or anger, what happens? You just get restless or discouraged and have to go eat something or smoke or drink or do something else. But if you wait and endure restlessness, greed, hatred, doubt, despair, and sleepiness, if you observe these conditions as they cease and end, you will attain a kind of calm and mental clarity, which you will never achieve if youre always going after something else.

- Ajahn Sumedho, "The Mind and the Way"