We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

If you're yelling within you that they shouldn't yell at you, that is where the pain begins, not with their yelling at you.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die.

We all think we have our personal favorites. But when I say, "People shouldn't steal - is it true?" Everyone in a room of, let's say, a thousand people all raise their hands and say, "That's true."

Actually, I can't take credit for any of my decisions. I noticed one day that all my decisions were making themselves, and always at the right time. I haven't had to make one decision since then. They are always made for me, and they come from the wisdom that is in us all. I trust that wisdom completely. That trust itself was a decision made for me as inquiry cleared my mind. No decision, no fear.

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.