I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.

Who would you be without your story?

Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over.

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

Nothing can cost you someone you love. The only thing that can cost you your husband is if you believe a thought. That's how you move away from him. That's how the marriage ends. You are one with your husband until you believe the thought that he should look a certain way, he should give you something, he should be something other than what he is. That's how you divorce him. Right then and there you have lost your marriage.

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.