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"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."
"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."
"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."
"I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering."
"Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n."
"We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything."
"This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always."
"Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed."
"There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves."
"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."
"Money is not my business; my thinking is my business. I don't have any other business."
"Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't."
"We fear only what we haven’t understood."
"I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins."
"If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought."
"If you're yelling within you that they shouldn't yell at you, that is where the pain begins, not with their yelling at you."
"There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled."
"There's no one who can teach you except yourself. Each of us needs to look at what our belief system really consists of. Look at the concepts that come across your mind and just notice what you believe."
"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."
"When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do."