Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.

To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.

Mind is infinitely creative. And when it's not stuck, that's where the joy comes from. Something happens, and the way we think about it, understand it, see it, is actually hilarious, whereas before it used to depress us.

I was full of rage. My self-esteem was so low that I actually slept on the floor every night, because I didn't believe I deserved a bed to sleep in.