Stress never feels as natural as peace does

Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.

My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think for myself, somehow, by fluke and by grace. And I thought, "Oh, my. I was so mistaken." The world isn't what I believed it to be. I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.