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mood.
For example you are feeling angry. Relax, and start smiling. Go deeper into smiling. Start laughing -- and just watch what is happening. You will immediately find that the anger is changing. It has come to a turning point from where it suddenly takes a jump and becomes laughter; it is the same energy. After a deep laughter, you will see that there is no need to be angry now; the anger has disappeared. Not only have you overcome the anger, but you have used it creatively. If you had been angry you would have been impoverished. It was a dissipation of energy.
When you feel sad, just feel that sadness, and start moving to the opposite polarity of laughing, enjoying, dancing, swaying. And soon you will see -- click! -- something changes suddenly. And you will be able to hear the sound of it -- it is almost like a click -- and you will see that the climate has changed. It is no more night.
And once you come to know the knack of it, you have come to know the meaning of inner alchemy. Then you are the master, and whatsoever happens, you can transform it into whatsoever else you want. Then there is no need to be in sadness when you don't want to be. If you want to be in sadness that is perfectly okay. Sometimes one wants to be sad; it is very relaxing -- but then it is not negative at all. It is your choice. If you don't want it, you can come out of it.
The problem arises when you don't want it, and you cannot come out of it. The problem is not sadness. The problem is that you cannot come out of it. The problem is not anger. The problem is that when it takes possession of you, you become helpless. You understand me?
The problem is to do with your incapacity to come out of these moods. Then one feels a slave, in bondage, imprisoned, and that imprisonment hurts. One feels walled in from everywhere... so helpless. The whole of life seems to lose meaning.
If you can come out of your imprisonment, it becomes a home. And there is no problem -- you have the key in your hands. You can open the door and come out. That is the only difference between a home and a prison. The prison is a house, the home is a house, but the keys of the
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