Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work’s not done.
Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.
If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
Nothing ever goes wrong in life.
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
There is no thought or situation that you can’t put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.
Some of us are returning to sanity, because we’re tired of the pain. We’re in a hurry. No time to mess around.
Lack of understanding is always painful.
The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
I’ll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.