Who I believed myself to be was a hopeless case. I would wake up in the mornings and notice I was still alive and breathing and hate God, hate myself, hate life, and contemplate ways of killing myself.

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

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.

It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.

When people are talking about manifesting, we can say, "I want a car, I want a car, I want a car," but if the mind is running, "I don't deserve it, I'll never be able to afford it, I'll never be a success" - if all those things are running - then those things are what we're really manifesting. They are exactly what's running our life. And as long as we believe those thoughts, thinking positively is not strong enough to override our negative beliefs.

When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.