When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.
The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
A teacher of fear can’t bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You’re the one.
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
We say to others only what we need to hear.
There are no new stressful thoughts. They’re all recycled.
I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think for myself, somehow, by fluke and by grace. And I thought, “Oh, my. I was so mistaken.” The world isn’t what I believed it to be. I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.
If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
It’s our nature to be free, and until we’re stuck in a stressful belief system, we’re pretty happy.