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.

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.

The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.

Mind is infinitely creative. And when it's not stuck, that's where the joy comes from. Something happens, and the way we think about it, understand it, see it, is actually hilarious, whereas before it used to depress us.

I like to say it was born out of laughter.