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

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.

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.

Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.

I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.

Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.