Occupation: Author Birth: December 6, 1942
It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be..
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them..
Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there..
What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
The mind's job is to validate what it thinks..
I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments..
If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe the….
If I'm okay with dying, my son is at least as enlightened as that. If I'm okay with my cancer, my son is at least as enlightened as I am..
I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's..
I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don't love it, question your mind until yo….
What we believe, we see..
If our stressful thoughts aren't true, what does that leave? It leaves, "I am loveable" - the very thing I could never make myself believe, because "….
The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it..
Love is who we are without our stories..
The pain shows you what's left to investigate..
You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity..
You are what exists before all stories..
So, how can we live in joy - and how can we know that we're supposed to live in joy the way people tell us to - when we're believing thoughts that br….
The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours..
We all think we have our personal favorites. But when I say, "People shouldn't steal - is it true?" Everyone in a room of, let's say, a thousand peop….
If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change..