Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?