If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

Inviting people to inquiry is much more powerful to me than describing my experience... When people hear me tell the story, they often say, "Oh my goodness, I get it. I get it!" But it's not enough.

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

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?

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening.