Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call "the dream." Often the dream becomes troubling; sometimes it even turns into a nightmare. At times like these, you may want to test the truth of your theories by doing The Work on them. The Work always leaves you with less of your uncomfortable story. Who would you be without it? How much of your world is made up of unexamined stories? You'll never know until you inquire.

That's huge: just to clean up one ecosystem.

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.