If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I'm insane.

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.

We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.

If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I'm insane.

If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.

As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing "out there" is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.

When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.