If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

If I'm okay with dying, my son is at least as enlightened as that. If I'm okay with my cancer, my son is at least as enlightened as I am.

We've been looking outside us for our own peace. We've been looking in the wrong direction.

When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.