When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.

You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity.

One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead sleep - about a 43-year sleep - and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I can't describe.

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

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