Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

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?"

The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future