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The Work Reveals That What You Think Shouldn't Have Happened Should Have Happened. It Should Happened Because It Did, And No Thinking In The World Can Change It. This Doesn't Mean That You Condone It Or Approve Of It. It Just Means That You Can See Things Without Resistance And Without The Confusion Of Your Inner Struggle. No One Wants Their Children To Get Sick, No One Wants To Be In A Car Accident; But When These Things Happen, How Can It Be Helpful To Mentally Argue With Them? We Know Better Than To Do That, Yet We Do It, Because We Don't Know How To Stop.

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The Work Reveals That What You Think Shouldn't Have Happened Should Have Happened. It Should Happened Because It Did, And No Thinking In The World Can Change It. This Doesn't Mean That You Condone It Or Approve Of It. It Just Means That You Can See Things Without Resistance And Without The Confusion Of Your Inner Struggle. No One Wants Their Children To Get Sick, No One Wants To Be In A Car Accident; But When These Things Happen, How Can It Be Helpful To Mentally Argue With Them? We Know Better Than To Do That, Yet We Do It, Because We Don't Know How To Stop.

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I Have Had The Privilege Of Losing Everything.

Losing Everything

Everything Happens For Me, Not To Me.

The Only Time We Suffer Is When We Believe A Thought That Argues With What Is. When The Mind Is Perfectly Clear, What Is Is What We Want.

All The Advice You Ever Gave Your Partner Is For You To Hear

Personalities Don't Love. They Want Something.

You Are Your Only Hope, Because We're Not Changing Until You Do. Our Job Is To Keep Coming At You, As Hard As We Can, With Everything That Angers, Upsets, Or Repulses You, Until You Understand. We Love You That Much, Whether We're Aware Of It Or Not. The Whole World Is About You.

There's Never A Mistake In The Universe. So If Your Partner Is Angry, Good. If There Are Things About Him That You Consider Flaws, Good, Because These Flaws Are Your Own, You're Projecting Them, And You Can Write Them Down, Inquire, And Set Yourself Free. People Go To India To Find A Guru, But You Don't Have To: You're Living With One. Your Partner Will Give You Everything You Need For Your Own Freedom.

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.

When You Run In Fear, It's Square Into The Wall.

I Am Never Unhappy, You Can Achieve That As Well.

Without Our Stories, We Are Not Only Able To Act Clearly And Fearlessly, We Are Also A Friend, A Listener. We Are People Living Happy Lives. We Are Appreciation And Gratitude That Have Become As Natural As Breath Itself. Happiness Is The Natural State For Someone Who Knows That There's Nothing To Know And That We Already Have Everything We Need, Right Here Now.

A Dishonest Yes Is A No To Yourself.

Place Only Your Kindest Thoughts On Everything You Experience Today. Meet Yourself.

We Begin To Not Be Human, As We've Known It, Any Longer. But To Be Just Creative Minds And Action, Whereas Right Now We're Confused Minds And Actions, And Our Environment Mirrors That Back To Us.

When You Act Like A Teacher, It's Usually Because You're Afraid To Be The Student.

Affecting The World Is Obviously Possible When We See People In The World Who We Really Love And Respect And We See How That They Affect Our Lives.

Love And Respect

Until You Look Forward To All Criticism, Your Work's Not Done.

I Would Go Out Into The Desert. The Desert Was My Teacher. I Didn't Know About Gurus And Wise People-i Wasn't A Reader.

I Have Never Experienced A Stressful Feeling That Wasn't Caused By Attaching To An Untrue Thought. Behind Every Uncomfortable Feeling, There's A Thought That Isn't True For Us.

Uncomfortable Feeling

No-one Can Disappoint You, Only Your Thoughts About Them Can

The Worst Loss You've Ever Experienced Is The Greatest Gift You Can Have.

It Is Not Your Business To Love Me. It Is Mine.

The Best Way Of Leading People Is To Let Them Find Their Own Way.

It's For Each Of Us To Look At What We Really Do Believe - What Our Belief System Really Consists Of.

'i Don't Know' Is My Favorite Position.

Life Is Simple. Everything Happens For You, Not To You.

You Cannot Hurt Me. Only I Can Do That.

When You Realize That Every Stressful Moment You Experience Is A Gift That Points You To Your Own Freedom, Life Becomes Very Kind.

If Your Happiness Depends On Your Children Being Happy, That Makes Them Your Hostages. So Stay Out Of Their Business, Stop Using Them For Your Happiness, And Be Your Own Happiness. And That Way You Are The Teacher For Your Children: Someone Who Knows How To Live A Happy Life.

Seeking Love Keeps You From The Awareness That You Already Have It—that You Are It.

All I Have Is All I Need And All I Need Is All I Have In This Moment.

I Love Not Rushing The Process. Mind Doesn't Shift Until It Does, And When It Does Shift, It's Right On Time, Not One Second Too Late Or Too Soon. People Are Like Seeds Waiting To Sprout. We Can't Be Pushed Ahead Of Our Own Understanding.

Whenever You Think That Your Needs Are Not Being Met, You’re Telling The Story Of A Future

If Something Happens To Your Son, Your Thoughts About Not Having Him In Your Life Is What Your Terror Is. It's Not About His Life.

If Our Thinking Is Clear, How Could Work Or Money Be The Problem? Our Thinking Is All We Need To Change.

In The Fall, You Don't Grieve Because The Leaves Are Falling And Dying. You Say, "isn't It Beautiful!" Well, We're The Same Way. There Are Seasons. We All Fall Sooner Or Later. It's All So Beautiful. And Our Concepts, Without Investigation, Keep Us From Knowing This. It's Beautiful To Be A Leaf, To Be Born, To Fall, To Give Way To The Next, To Become Food For The Roots. It's Life, Always Changing Its Form And Always Giving Itself Completely. We All Do Our Part. No Mistake.

Depression, Pain, And Fear Are Gifts That Say, "sweetheart, Take A Look At Your Thinking In This Moment. You're Living In A Story That Isn't True For You." Living A Lie Is Always Stressful. And Investigating A Lie Through The Work Always Leads You Back To Who You Are. Who You Are Is Not An Option. You Are Love. It Hurts To Believe You're Other Than Who You Are, To Live Any Story Less Than Love.

Happiness Is A Clear Mind. A Clear And Sane Mind Knows How To Live, How To Work, What Emails To Send, What Phone Calls To Make, And What To Do Do To Create What It Wants Without Fear.

Since The Past Is Unreal And The Future Is Unreal, All Your Thoughts Are About Nothing.

When I Am Perfectly Clear, What Is Is What I Want.

Being Present Means Living Without Control And Always Having Your Needs Met.

Live In The Moment

Every Uncomfortable Feeling, Every Pain, Every Moment Of Stress & Suffering Is For Your Own Self-realizatio N.

That's What I Love About Integrity. Each Time We Go Inside, That's Where It Is.

It's Not The Problem That Causes Our Suffering; It's Our Thinking About The Problem.

We Don’t Attach To Things; We Attach To Our Stories About Them.

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.

Some Children Are Afraid To Die Because Their Parents Are Afraid To Die. My Own Children Have Come To Understand That It's Totally Okay With Me If They Die. They Don't Have To Live For My Sake.

I Live In A State Of Grace, Where I Don't Have To Know.

That's Huge: Just To Clean Up One Ecosystem.

You Can't Drop Concepts. You Can Only Shine A Little Flashlight On Them As You Do Inquiry, An You See That What You Thought Was True Wasn't. And When The Truth Is Seen, There's Nothing You Can Do To Make The Lie True For You Again.

It's Just A Constant Thing When The Mind Starts To Wake Up To Itself.

There's No Way That A Clear Mind Can Live An Unhappy Life.

If I Think That Someone Else Is Causing My Problem, I'm Insane.

Trauma Is Nothing More Than Being Stuck In What You Believe.

It's Not The Darkness That People Fear; It's What They Imagine Into The Darkness.

Do You Know Anyone Who Hasn't Changed His Mind? This Door Was A Tree, Then It Will Be Firewood For Someone, Then It Will Return To Air And Earth. We're All Like That, Constantly Changing. It's Simply Honest To Report That You've Changed Your Mind When You Have. When You're Afraid Of What People Will Think If You Speak Honestly, That's Where You Become Confused.

We May Appear To Be Mean But We're Really Only Frightened.

Stress Is An Alarm Clock That Lets You Know You're Attached To Something Not True For You.

How Do I Know That I Don’t Need What I Want? I Don’t Have It.

Law Of Attraction

I Can Find Only Three Kinds Of Business In The Universe: Mine, Yours, And God's.

When You Say Or Do Anything To Please, Get, Keep, Influence, Or Control Anyone Or Anything, Fear Is The Cause And Pain Is The Result.

I Used To Sleep On The Floor Next To The Bed, Because I Believed That I Didn't Even Deserve A Bed To Sleep In. And Then, One Morning, A Cockroach Crawled Onto My Leg. I Looked At It, And Suddenly I Awoke From A Kind Of Hypnotic Trance In Which I Had Been All My Life.

Reality Is Always The Story Of A Past, And What I Love About The Past Is—it's Over.

I Teach People To Question Their Thinking, And This Changes Their World.

Love Asks For Nothing. Only Personalities Want Something.

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Uncomfortable Feeling

Don't Be Careful. You Could Hurt Yourself.

My Experience Is That The Teachers We Need Most Are The People We're Living With Right Now.

When Your Mind Opens, The Whole World Falls Into Place.

And As Long As We Believe What We Believe - Until That Is Questioned - There's No Progress As A Human Race. Again, We Still Have War. So, Effective Rehabilitation Is To Question What We Believe. When That Happens, Everyone Gets Out Of Prison.

Defense Is The First Act Of War.

For Me, If Somebody Tells Me To Go Away, That Is An Opportunity For Me To Give Them A Better Life. And That's An Opportunity For Me To Know And Realize Where Not To Be. It's An Opportunity For Me To See What Could Be Better Than Being With That Person I Love.

There Is No Peace In The World Until You Find Peace Within Yourself In This Moment.

The Teacher You Need Is The Person You're Living With.

It's Quite An Amazing Experience To See The Same Life With And Without The Thought. We Come To See How Crazy A Thought Can Make Us When We Believe It.

Amazing Experiences

Joy Is A Natural Way Of Being.

It's Only Our Story That Keeps Us From Knowing That We Always Have Everything We Need.

Inquiry Appears To Be A Process Of Thinking, But Actually It's A Way To Undo Thinking. Thoughts Lose Their Power Over Us When We Realize That They Simply Appear In The Mind. They're Not Personal. Through The Work, Instead Of Escaping Or Suppressing Our Thoughts, We Learn To Meet Them With Unconditional Love And Understanding.

Unconditional Love

What Is Perfect Health? The Unraveling Of All Imagined States Of Mind

To Me, Health Is A Balanced Mind. A Balanced Mind Knows How To Get Enough Rest, How To Eat Properly, How To Exercise. I Have Come Out As Just A Balanced Human Being, And I Don't Know Anything Finer Than That.

That's The Purpose Of Stress. It's A Friend. It's An Alarm Clock, Built In To Let You Know That It's Time To Do The Work.

I Like To Say Understanding Is The Power.

I Think That's The Trick: Wanting What I Have.

I Believe In The Power Of Every Human Being To End Suffering.

I Havent Had A Single Thought For 26 Years. I Have Only Understanding. Its Somewhat Complicated To Understand That. Ive Hardly Ever Spoken About It. Youre In A State Of Total Peace Of Mind. A Kind Of Nirvana.

If You Realized How Beautiful You Are, You Would Fall At Your Own Feet.

Peace Doesn't Require Two People; It Requires Only One. It Has To Be You. The Problem Begins And Ends There.

If You Want Real Control, Drop The Illusion Of Control; Let Life Have You. It Does Anyway. You’re Just Telling Yourself The Story Of How It Doesn’t.

I Am Entirely Motivated Without Anger. The Truth Sets Us Free, And Freedom Acts.

One Morning As I Lay Sleeping On The Floor, A Cockroach Crawled Over My Foot. And I Opened My Eyes Out Of This Dead Sleep - About A 43-year Sleep - And In Place Of All That Darkness Was A Joy That I Can't Describe.

Even Breathing Is A Contribution.

Until We Question Our Stressful Thoughts, We Remain Victims Of The Images In Our Head.

A Teacher Of Fear Can't Bring Peace On Earth. We Have Been Trying To Do It That Way For Thousands Of Years. The Person Who Turns Inner Violence Around, The Person Who Finds Peace Inside And Lives It, Is The One Who Teaches What True Peace Is. We Are Waiting For Just One Teacher. You're The One.

The Mind Usually Says, “i Know, I Know, I Know.” But The “don’t-know Mind” Is Where Wisdom Lives.

As Far As Intellect, What Else Is There? Without Intellect, No Story And No World.

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I Love What I Think, And I'm Never Tempted To Believe It.

My Happiness Isn't Dependent On Anyone Else's.

My Mother Became A Believer, And Then I Became A Believer. But When I Was 43 Years Old, I Began To Think For Myself, Somehow, By Fluke And By Grace. And I Thought, "oh, My. I Was So Mistaken." The World Isn't What I Believed It To Be. I Am Not What I Believed Me To Be, And Neither Is Anyone.

There Is Nothing That Isn't True If You Believe It; And Nothing Is True, Believe It Or Not.

Your Understanding Of Another Person Is Limited By What You Think You Already Know. So When You Just Listen, The Person You Meet Won't Match Your Preconception. The Exciting Thing Is That You Usually Meet Someone Much Wiser And Kinder Than You Expected. You Might Also Lose Track Of Your Ideas About Who You Are.

When You Discover That All Happiness Is Inside You, The Wanting And Needing Are Over, And Life Gets Very Exciting.

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 You Do.

Just Because We Love Someone, We Begin To Notice That Love Is An Experience And We Have To Do Something With It. We Don't Have To Marry People Or Date Them Because We Care About Them Very Deeply. It's An Experience.

A Lover Of What Is Looks Forward To Everything: Life, Death, Disease, Loss, Earthquakes, Bombs, Anything The Mind Might Be Tempted To Call 'bad.' Life Will Bring Us Everything We Need, To Show Us What We Haven't Undone Yet. Nothing Outside Ourselves Can Make Us Suffer. Except For Our Unquestioned Thoughts, Every Place Is Paradise.

To Understand Our Own Thinking Is To Understand All Thinking.

Ultimately, I Am All I Can Know.

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 "i'm Unloveable" Overrides It When The Chips Are Down.

What We Believe, We See.

The World Is A Projection Of Our Thoughts - The Thoughts We Believe.

So, How Do You Get Back To Heaven? To Begin With, Just Notice The Thoughts That Take You Away From It. You Don't Have To Believe Everything Your Thoughts Tell You. Just Become Familiar With The Particular Thoughts You Use To Deprive Yourself Of Happiness. It May Seem Strange At First To Get To Know Yourself In This Way, But Becoming Familiar With Your Stressful Thoughts Will Show You The Way Home To Everything You Need.

To Argue With Reality Is To Argue With God

I Could Go On And On About How The Statements And Concepts That Used To Depress Me Now Bring Me Joy, But That Is Not Easily Understood For People Who Think The Way I Used To Think And Believe What I Used To Believe.

Whatever It Takes For You To Find Your Freedom, That's What You've Lived.

Whatever It Takes

Nothing Terrible Has Ever Happened Except In Our Thinking. Reality Is Always Good, Even In Situations That Seem Like Nightmares. The Story We Tell Is The Only Nightmare That We Have Lived.

An Unquestioned Mind Is The World Of Suffering.

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 Them. How Can You Live In Joy When You're Believing Thoughts That Bring On Sadness, Frustration, Anger, Alienation, And Loneliness?

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.

There Is No Security For Those Who Seek It Outside Of Themselves.

Forgiveness Is Just Another Name For Freedom.

When We Work With Our Thinking, Then To Have Great Wealth Is The Same As To Have Nothing. That's The Only Freedom.

So There's Only Transcendence In The Moment. Nobody Can Be Transcended Forever. That's Why I Say, "who Cares If You're Enlightened Forever?"

We All Begin To Do What We Can Do, Just Like We're Doing Now, To Clean Up The Planet And To Find Solutions Rather Than Fight. It Just Happens Everywhere.

Love Is Who We Are Without Our Stories.

The Way To Truly Help Someone Is For Me To Not Get Immersed In Their Suffering.

One Morning In February 1986, Out Of Nowhere, I Experienced A Realization. In An Instant, I Discovered That When I Believed My Stressful Thoughts, I Suffered, But When I Questioned Them, I Didn't Suffer.

I Am A Lover Of What Is, Not Because I'm A Spiritual Person, But Because It Hurts When I Argue With Reality. We Can Know That Reality Is Good Just As It Is, Because When We Argue With It, We Experience Tension And Frustration. We Don't Feel Natural Or Balanced. When We Stop Opposing Reality, Action Becomes Simple, Fluid, Kind, And Fearless.

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.

Thinking That People Are Supposed To Do Or Be Anything Other Than What They Are Is Like Saying That The Tree Over There Should Be The Sky. I Investigated That And Found Freedom.

When People Are Talking About Manifesting, We Can Say, "i Want A Car, I Want A Car, I Want A Car," But If The Mind Is Running, "i Don't Deserve It, I'll Never Be Able To Afford It, I'll Never Be A Success" - If All Those Things Are Running - Then Those Things Are What We're Really Manifesting. They Are Exactly What's Running Our Life. And As Long As We Believe Those Thoughts, Thinking Positively Is Not Strong Enough To Override Our Negative Beliefs.

If You Don't Like Your World, Question Your Thoughts About It.

If You Put Your Hand Into A Fire, Does Anyone Have To Tell You To Move It? Do You Have To Decide? No: When Your Hand Starts To Burn, It Moves. You Don’t Have To Direct It; The Hand Moves Itself. In The Same Way, Once You Understand, Through Inquiry, That An Untrue Thought Causes Suffering, You Move Away From It.

I'm Not In Iraq. I'm Here In California. Have I Had An Argument With My Husband Today? Have I Been At War With Someone In My Life Today - Or With Myself? Let Me Work On That. That Way War Is Ending Somewhere In The World.

Arguing With Reality It Like Trying To Teach A Cat To Bark.

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.

This Is The Time. This Is The Place. This Is The Vastness. Right Here Is Paradise. Always. Always.

The Nightmare Always Becomes Laughter, Once It's Understood.

What I Invite People To Do Is To Look At Their Lives Just The Way That They Have Lived Them. Not To Change Anything, And Not To Do Positive Thinking At All.

Positive Thinking

The World Is What You Believe It To Be, And It Changes As You Change.

I Saw That We're All Doing The Best We Can. This Is How A Lifetime Of Humility Begins.

It's Not What Happens In Life That Bothers Us. It's What We're Believing About It That Bothers Us.

I Use The Word Inquiry As Synonymous With The Work...inquiry Is A Way To End Confusion And To Experience Internal Peace, Even In A World Of Apparent Chaos. Above All Else, Inquiry Is About Realizing That All The Answers We Ever Need Are Always Available Inside Us.

When I Was In My Early Forties, I Slept With A Loaded Gun Under My Bed. Id Become Severely Depressed In My Thirties, And For Almost A Decade I Spiraled Down Into Paranoia, Rage, Self-loathing, And Thoughts Of Suicide.

Any Story That You Tell About Yourself Causes Suffering. There Is No Authentic Story.

Life Is The Constant Opportunity To Wake Up.

Your Parents Are Your Projection-nothing More.

The Ego Is Terrified Of The Truth. And The Truth Is That The Ego Doesn't Exist.

That's Where The Fear Comes From-from Your Uninvestigated Thoughts.

Everyone Has Equal Wisdom. It Is Absolutely Equally Distributed. No One Is Wiser Than Anyone Else.

What You’re Believing In The Moment Creates Your Suffering Or Your Happiness.

The Nature Of Mind Is That It Loves Everything Once It Loves Itself, Just As It Opposes Everything When It Opposes Itself.

No One Can Give You Freedom But You.

Freedom Of Expression

Actually, I Can't Take Credit For Any Of My Decisions. I Noticed One Day That All My Decisions Were Making Themselves, And Always At The Right Time. I Haven't Had To Make One Decision Since Then. They Are Always Made For Me, And They Come From The Wisdom That Is In Us All. I Trust That Wisdom Completely. That Trust Itself Was A Decision Made For Me As Inquiry Cleared My Mind. No Decision, No Fear.

When You Believe That Your Problem Is Caused By Someone Or Something Else, You Become Your Own Victim.

Sadness Isn't A Natural Response.

My Life Is A Contribution.

The World Is Nothing But My Perception Of It. I See Only Through Myself. I Hear Only Through The Filter Of My Story.

Reality Doesn't Wait For Your Opinion, Vote, Or Permission, Sweetheart. It Just Keeps Being What It Is And Doing What It Does.

When You're Operating On Uninvestigated Theories Of What's Going On And You Aren't Even Aware Of It, You're In What I Call "the Dream." Often The Dream Becomes Troubling; Sometimes It Even Turns Into A Nightmare. At Times Like These, You May Want To Test The Truth Of Your Theories By Doing The Work On Them. The Work Always Leaves You With Less Of Your Uncomfortable Story. Who Would You Be Without It? How Much Of Your World Is Made Up Of Unexamined Stories? You'll Never Know Until You Inquire.

Times Like These

When You Question What You Believe, You Leave The World, Really, And What The World Believes. It Puts You In A Very Interesting Position.

When We Stop Opposing Reality, Action Becomes Simple, Fluid, Kind, And Fearless.

Thought The Mind Can Justify Itself Faster Than The Speed Of Light, It Can Be Stopped Through The Act Of Writing.

How Do You React When You Think You Need People's Love? Do You Become A Slave For Their Approval?

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.

Everyone Is A Mirror Image Of Yourself-your Own Thinking Coming Back To You.

Until The Mind Is Open, The Heart Stays Closed. The Open Mind Is The Key To The Open Heart.

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.

We Are Never Really In Control. We Just Think We Are When Things Happen To Be Going Our Way.

Stress Never Feels As Natural As Peace Does

How Do I Know It Was Meant To Happen This Way? Because It Did.

Meant To Happen

The End Of Suffering Happens In This Very Moment, Whether You're Watching A Terrorist Attack Or Doing The Dishes. And Compassion Begins At Home. Because I Don't Believe My Thoughts, Sadness Can't Exist. That's How I Can Go To The Depths Of Anyone's Suffering, If They Invite Me, And Take Them By The Hand And Walk Them Out Of It Into The Sunlight Of Reality. I've Taken That Walk Myself.

It's Not Your Job To Like Me - It's Mine

They Say, "katie, You're Wrong." And If I Say, "how Dare You Say That? I Have Studied And Studied." Or, "i Am An Expert In" Whatever Area We're Talking About. Or, "no, You Are Wrong! And I Think You're Rude!" Or Anything Like That, And If We Don't Say It Out Loud, Maybe We Think It, But That's Stressful. The Moment I've Defended, In Any Way, I've Started The War.

Everything That Happens Is God's Will. When You Realize That, You're Home Free.

The Work Is Four Questions And A Turnaround. The Work Is A Way To Identify And Question The Thoughts That Cause All The Suffering And Violence In The World. The Work Is A Very, Very Simple Process. It's For Anyone Who Can Answer A Question That Is Willing To. It Takes A Bit Of Willingness And An Open Mind.

To Think That I Know What's Best For Anyone Else Is To Be Out Of My Business. Even In The Name Of Love, It Is Pure Arrogance, And The Result Is Tension, Anxiety, And Fear. Do I Know What's Right For Me? That Is My Only Business. Let Me Work With That Before I Try To Solve Problems For You.

The World Is Perfect. As You Question Your Mind, This Becomes More And More Obvious. Mind Changes, And As A Result, The World Changes. A Clear Mind Heals Everything That Needs To Be Healed. It Can Never Be Fooled Into Believing That There Is One Speck Out Of Order.

Never Be Fooled Into Believing That There Is One Speck Out Of Order.

It Takes Only One Person To Have A Successful Relationship.

Successful Relationship

I've Heard People Say That They Cling To Their Painful Thoughts Because They're Afraid That Without Them They Wouldn't Be Activists For Peace. "if I Feel Peaceful," They Say, "why Would I Bother Taking Action At All?"

When You Become A Lover Of What Is, The War Is Over.

I Invite Everyone To Question Their Thoughts About Their Children And Allow Their Children To Be Free. That's When We Stop Teaching Our Children Fear.

You're Never Given More Pain Than You Can Handle. You Never, Ever Get More Than You Can Take.

I'm Most Inspired Whenever I Hear Of Even The Smallest Act Of Human Kindness.

When You Stay Present With Your Children, That’s Where Abundance Is. And When You Stay Out Of Their Business, That’s Where Everything You Deserve In Life Is. When You’re In Presence, There’s No Story, And You Are Abundance. And You Come To Trust That Space So Often That You Just Eventually Hang Out As That, Because There Is Nothing That Can Move You Out Of It, Not Even A Perceived Child Or A Perceived Anything.

I Was Clinically Depressed. I Was Paranoid. I Was Agoraphobic. I Would Have Days At A Time Of Not Being Able To Even Bathe Or Brush My Teeth.

It Doesn´t Come Later. Everything You´re Supposed To Do Is Here Right Now.

Mind Changes, And As A Result, The World Changes. A Clear Mind Heals Everything That Needs To Be Healed.

When You're Comfortable And Secure, It's Not Enough. The Mind Doesn't Stop There Because It Has To Continue To Focus Itself As This Body, So It Moves To Pleasure. And Pleasure Really Is A Non-existent Thing. When We're Experiencing Pleasure, We're Trying To Hold Onto It As It Leaves, So It Really Isn't Pleasure. Pleasure Is Pain Because We're Grasping.

The Only Way I Can Be Angry At You Is When I Have Thought, Said, Or Done Something That Is Unkind In My Own Opinion.

A Thought Is Harmless Unless We Believe It.

The Greatest Stock Market You Can Invest In Is Yourself. Finding This Truth Is Better Than Finding A Gold Mine.

Spare Yourself From Seeking Love, Approval, Or Appreciation-from Anyone. And Watch What Happens In Reality, Just For Fun.

The Whole Planet Is Waiting For Someone To Do It First

If You Are Mentally Somewhere Else, You Miss Real Life

Every Moment A Gift: Are You Unwrapping Yours Now, And Now, And Now?

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 Your Freedom.

I Can Find Only Three Kinds Of Business In The Universe: Mine, Yours And God's. Much Of Our Stress Comes From Mentally Living Out Of Our Business. When I Think, "you Need To Get A Job, I Want You To Be Happy, You Should Be On Time, You Need To Take Better Care Of Yourself," I Am In Your Business. When I'm Worried About Earthquakes, Floods, War, Or When I Will Die, I Am In God's Business. If I Am Mentally In Your Business Or In God's Business, The Effect Is Separation.

We're All Looking For Love, In Our Confusion, Until We Find Our Way Back To The Realization That Love Is What We Already Are.

The Mind Is So Tricky. It Will Say, "no One Cares. Is It True? Well, Someone Does. Let's See: So-and-so Doesn't Care. Well, Maybe They Do. Well, There Is Someone Who Doesn't Care." It Just Shifts And Shifts And Shifts, So It Can Keep All Of Its Concepts Intact.

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