With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.

When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

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

Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.

I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.