In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.

As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

Who I believed myself to be was a hopeless case. I would wake up in the mornings and notice I was still alive and breathing and hate God, hate myself, hate life, and contemplate ways of killing myself.

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 you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.

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

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.