It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.

Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.

When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.

It's very benign, it seems, to think, "There's a tree." In fact, it's a very beautiful thought. If someone chops down all the trees, then we think, "Oh, my goodness, something is out of order in my world." We begin to think, "Who am I in a world without trees?"

One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead sleep - about a 43-year sleep - and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I can't describe.

What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?