Taming the beast

The next time you’re angry—you know, really fired up—stop dead in your tracks and say these four words with complete conviction: “Right now I’m insane.” The truth will set you free.

Take control of your life

This is a manifestly bad idea, even a self-defeating one. Controlling myself implies the existence of a subject and an object. But I cannot, surely, be an object to myself. And as Eckhart Tolle observes, I do not have a life. I am life.