There is no peace in the world until you find peace within yourself in this moment.
The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.
You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It’s the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They’re not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.
But when you think you’re supposed to do something with it and imagine that you’re the doer, that’s pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you’re doing it.
You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
Insanity is arguing with reality.
Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.
I don’t let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing “out there” is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.