No one can hurt me - that's my job.

I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering.

When I believed my thoughts I suffered.

The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

The mind is so tricky. It will say, "No one cares. Is it true? Well, someone does. Let's see: So-and-so doesn't care. Well, maybe they do. Well, there is someone who doesn't care." It just shifts and shifts and shifts, so it can keep all of its concepts intact.

When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.

So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?