Every negative quality, Sri Ramakrishna says, can be turned into a positive one. You want to be greedy, he asks, why not really be greedy? Instead of wanting things for yourself, want them for everybody. Don't settle for anything less...So if you meet a greedy person, congratulate him. If he can turn his greed to human welfare, it will be a tremendous motivating force.The greed will still be there but harnassed and mastered. The same is true of anger and fear; they are power that can be harnassed. — Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume 3