The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.

It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.

My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.

Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.

And as long as we believe what we believe - until that is questioned - there's no progress as a human race. Again, we still have war. So, effective rehabilitation is to question what we believe. When that happens, everyone gets out of prison.