No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape.

When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.

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

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

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

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

I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.