If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life

I'm not in Iraq. I'm here in California. Have I had an argument with my husband today? Have I been at war with someone in my life today - or with myself? Let me work on that. That way war is ending somewhere in the world.

What's happening in the world is a natural course of events.

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.

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

It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.