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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
Money is not my business; my thinking is my business. I don't have any other business.
I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.
A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.
It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.
It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!
If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.
Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future
The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
We've been looking outside us for our own peace. We've been looking in the wrong direction.
Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
Reality is: Should people steal in this world? Yes. How do I know they should? They all do.
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.
There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.
You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?
It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us.
If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.
It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.
You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity.
Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought
It's for each of us to look at what we really do believe - what our belief system really consists of.
When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.