When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call "the dream." Often the dream becomes troubling; sometimes it even turns into a nightmare. At times like these, you may want to test the truth of your theories by doing The Work on them. The Work always leaves you with less of your uncomfortable story. Who would you be without it? How much of your world is made up of unexamined stories? You'll never know until you inquire.

Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.

If you argue against reality you will suffer.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it.

The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened.