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

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.

God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.

Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.

The Work reveals that what you think shouldn't have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking in the world can change it. This doesn't mean that you condone it or approve of it. It just means that you can see things without resistance and without the confusion of your inner struggle. No one wants their children to get sick, no one wants to be in a car accident; but when these things happen, how can it be helpful to mentally argue with them? We know better than to do that, yet we do it, because we don't know how to stop.

What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.