When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.

As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing "out there" is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.

Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

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.

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.