...as human beings, our responses should not be automatic; we should be able to choose. When the mind is excited, we jump into a situation and do whatever comes automatically, which often only makes things worse. If the mind is calm, we see clearly and don't get emotionally entangled in events around us, leaving us free to respond with compassion.
---Eknath Easwaran, in the Introduction to his translation of the Dhammapada---
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