If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

I shouldn't steal in this world.

When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

We all begin to do what we can do, just like we're doing now, to clean up the planet and to find solutions rather than fight. It just happens everywhere.