I was clinically depressed. I was paranoid. I was agoraphobic. I would have days at a time of not being able to even bathe or brush my teeth.

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

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

In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.

It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.