Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

When your son is healthy and happy, you're healthy and happy. And when your son is not healthy, let's say you're unhappy.

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

When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.

When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.