You can’t drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn’t. And when the truth is seen, there’s nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.
If you’re yelling within you that they shouldn’t yell at you, that is where the pain begins, not with their yelling at you.
I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn’t even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.
Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.
No one can give you freedom but you.
Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
I’ve heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they’re afraid that without them they wouldn’t be activists for peace. “If I feel peaceful,” they say, “why would I bother taking action at all?”
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.