What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
We fear only what we haven’t understood.
Defense is the first act of war.
A dishonest yes is a no to yourself.
Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
We don’t attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to tbe true in the moment.
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”