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

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

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”

The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.

Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it.

In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.

We say to others only what we need to hear.

I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.

That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.

Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

The irony is that we had more intimacy when apart.

I’ve never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.