When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."

When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop.

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Actually, I can't take credit for any of my decisions. I noticed one day that all my decisions were making themselves, and always at the right time. I haven't had to make one decision since then. They are always made for me, and they come from the wisdom that is in us all. I trust that wisdom completely. That trust itself was a decision made for me as inquiry cleared my mind. No decision, no fear.

I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering.