“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.”

We cannot see what we don’t believe.

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.

Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.

The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.

My life is a contribution.

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.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

People do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that’s how it should be.

The image is a great reminder how we create our world through interpretations made up of language and symbols.

And, unfortunately, the cruelty and killing are often justified through a distorted interpretation of religion

The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.

There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.

There are lots of different interpretations of the word ‘prodigy.’