You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

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.

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

I can't love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.

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.

The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.