“Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.”

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.

Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.

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.

The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.

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.

We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.

It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.

Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.

There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?

We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.

Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.

Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.

We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture.

Human nature, as we know it, is in a formative state. It is being changed into the image of the thing it loves.

Actually, all paths lead away from the truth…how’s that? All paths. There’s no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth’s already here, where are you going?