Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.

Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.

What I say and what I'm really experiencing - those universes are very different.

I was clinically depressed. I was paranoid. I was agoraphobic. I would have days at a time of not being able to even bathe or brush my teeth.

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

Your parents are your projection-nothing more.