If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

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

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

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.

There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.