Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

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

The last story: God is everything, God is good.

Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives.