"Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again."
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"Mind is everything. There's nothing that it's not."
"The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think.""
"'I don't know' is my favorite position."
"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 am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality."
"Everything happens for me, not to me."
"Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?"
"Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does."
"We cannot see what we don't believe."
"Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?"
"Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening."
"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 the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless."
"Your parents are your projection-nothing more."
"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."
"The last story: God is everything, God is good."
"You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself."
"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."
"Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?"
"Who would you be without your story?"