If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.
You don’t have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn’t stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity.
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don’t like your world, it doesn’t work to say, “Well, it’s my mother’s fault. She taught me how to think.”
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
Mind is infinitely creative. And when it’s not stuck, that’s where the joy comes from. Something happens, and the way we think about it, understand it, see it, is actually hilarious, whereas before it used to depress us.
Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
It’s a wonderful world when you have what you want at all times.
What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.
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.” Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, “Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking right now. You’re living in a story that isn’t true for you.
Isn’t it marvelous to discover that you’re the one you’ve been waiting for? That you are your own freedom?
Life is so simple: We walk; we sit; we lie horizontal. That’s about it. Everything else is a story about what’s going on while we’re doing it.
You’re just suffering from the belief that there’s something missing from your life. In reality, you always have what you need.
The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match – they’re reflections of each other. The world is a mirror image of your mind.
You’re either attaching to your thoughts or inquiring. There’s no other choice.
If you think he’s supposed to be different from what he is, you don’t love him. In that moment you love who he’s going to be when you’re through manipulating him. He is a throwaway until he matches your image of him.