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?

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.

The last story: God is everything, God is good.

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.

One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.