“God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.”

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.

If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.

Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.

You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”

When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.

The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.

If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”

All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.

When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.

You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.

Your parents are your projection-nothing more.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great

If you are going to buy clothes, choose them with the intention of welcoming them into your home and caring for them.

Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated…to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter.

I’ve tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.