“Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.”

Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.

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.

Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.

Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.

Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.

The last story: God is everything, God is good.

The best parts of ourselves are the parts we are too afraid to show others.

A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path.

Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.

To me, authentic love is a sacred encounter we all yearn for.

Authentic gratitude is a way of life. When you wake up in the morning let your first thought be one of thanksgiving that you have another day to walk in the love of God. As you go through your day, see the Giver behind all of the gifts freely being given to you.

When the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action.

Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude.