If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there's falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.