“Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.”

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.

Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.

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.

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”

When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.

The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.

If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”

All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.

When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.

You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.

Your parents are your projection-nothing more.

Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.