Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call "the dream." Often the dream becomes troubling; sometimes it even turns into a nightmare. At times like these, you may want to test the truth of your theories by doing The Work on them. The Work always leaves you with less of your uncomfortable story. Who would you be without it? How much of your world is made up of unexamined stories? You'll never know until you inquire.

You can never make yourself believe that you're loveable, however hard you try, because when the chips are down what you really believe rises to the surface of the mind to replace what you want to believe.

When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.