The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it – that you are it.
You are your only hope, because we’re not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we’re aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.
In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
To think that I know what’s best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what’s right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.
I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.
When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.
Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination – ev en you.
I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
I saw that we’re all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.
Who cares if you’re enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?
The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
Would you rather be right or free?