Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening.

Nothing ever goes wrong in life.

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

They say, "Katie, you're wrong." And if I say, "How dare you say that? I have studied and studied." Or, "I am an expert in" whatever area we're talking about. Or, "No, you are wrong! And I think you're rude!" Or anything like that, and if we don't say it out loud, maybe we think it, but that's stressful. The moment I've defended, in any way, I've started the war.

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.

Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives.

If our stressful thoughts aren't true, what does that leave? It leaves, "I am loveable" - the very thing I could never make myself believe, because "I'm unloveable" overrides it when the chips are down.