Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.

I like to say understanding is the power.

I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.

So, how can we live in joy - and how can we know that we're supposed to live in joy the way people tell us to - when we're believing thoughts that bring on sadness and frustration and anger and alienation and loneliness? When we're believing those thoughts, we think that's the world, rather than what we're believing about the world. We're like lost little children.

If you're yelling within you that they shouldn't yell at you, that is where the pain begins, not with their yelling at you.

The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.

What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?