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.

I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.

I like to say understanding is the power.

Who I believed myself to be was a hopeless case. I would wake up in the mornings and notice I was still alive and breathing and hate God, hate myself, hate life, and contemplate ways of killing myself.

The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.

Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.