I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.
If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.
If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
I like to say it was born out of laughter.
One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.