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

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

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

The Work reveals that what you think shouldn't have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking in the world can change it. This doesn't mean that you condone it or approve of it. It just means that you can see things without resistance and without the confusion of your inner struggle. No one wants their children to get sick, no one wants to be in a car accident; but when these things happen, how can it be helpful to mentally argue with them? We know better than to do that, yet we do it, because we don't know how to stop.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.