Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with; he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.

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

You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.

I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.

You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?

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

The world isn't what I've believed it to be, and I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.