When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.

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.

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

The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives