Would you rather be right or free?

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.

When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.

What I invite people to do is to look at their lives just the way that they have lived them. Not to change anything, and not to do positive thinking at all.

You are the effect of your story, that's all.

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.