When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.

Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.

Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.

If you argue against reality you will suffer.