When your son is healthy and happy, you're healthy and happy. And when your son is not healthy, let's say you're unhappy.

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.

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not me. They're hearing themselves.

What's happening in the world is a natural course of events.

Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.