"When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position."
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"What we believe, we see."
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"I teach people to question their thinking, and this changes their world."
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"If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem."
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"Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry."
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"If you question your thoughts about when your son is not healthy, you come to see that you're the only one you're worried about. It's like without him, you're not happy - so it's all about your happiness. You want him to live for you - for your happiness."
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"All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment."
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"Stress never feels as natural as peace does"
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"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."
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"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?""
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"You are what exists before all stories."
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"Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress."
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"When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue."
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"I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They're all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later."
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"Inviting people to inquiry is much more powerful to me than describing my experience... When people hear me tell the story, they often say, "Oh my goodness, I get it. I get it!" But it's not enough."
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"It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy."
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"If you want to clean up the environment, start with your mind. It starts there!"
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"I'm the one who changes the world if I can follow what I think should and shouldn't be lived in this world."
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"If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!"
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"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 - physically die - to escape."
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