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

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

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it.

A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise.

For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.