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.”
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.