"Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions."
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"I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world."
"Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you."
"So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?"
"Forgiveness is just another name for freedom."
"Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around."
"Sadness isn't a natural response."
"The more you reveal, the more you have to question and the freer you get. Until, finally, you're absolutely exposed. And that leaves you in a fearless position, because you can work in the world without the fear of being found out. That is freedom."
"There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you."
"I live in a state of grace, where I don't have to know."
"Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders."
"I'm the one I need to work with."
"Nothing ever goes wrong in life."
"If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I'm insane."
"I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!"
"A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous."
"Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future."
"Reality is: Should people steal in this world? Yes. How do I know they should? They all do."
"Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done."
"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."