When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

If you don't like your world, question your thoughts about it.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.