“If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.”

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.

Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

Reality is always kinder than your thinking.

If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.

Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.