Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
If you argue against reality you will suffer.
There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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.
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.”