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"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."
"Who would you be without the thought "I need more money to be safe?" You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don't ever need more money than you have."
"It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be."
"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."
"Maybe everything we've ever done has been for love."
"It's a wonderful world when you have what you want at all times."
"The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives."
"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."
"Every mind deserves to be free."
"Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around."
"The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you've got and enhance it. Any religion you have - they'll enhance it. If you have no religion, they will bring you joy. And they'll burn up anything that isn't true for you. They'll burn through to the reality that has always been waiting."
"You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own."
"Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming."
"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."
"The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself."
"Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie?"
"Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end."
"A thought is harmless unless we believe it."
"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."
"It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job."