Occupation: Author Birth: December 6, 1942
You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself..
No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die ….
Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories..
The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself..
Even breathing is a contribution..
But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what ….
Nothing can cost you someone you love. The only thing that can cost you your husband is if you believe a thought. That's how you move away from him. ….
There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of y….
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself..
Reality is: Should people steal in this world? Yes. How do I know they should? They all do..
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself..
It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we see….
For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produce….
With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment..
When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in ….
I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me..
If you want to clean up the environment, start with your mind. It starts there!.
The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought..
Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe..
There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled..
I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering..