I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.

When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.

When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.