Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.

Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.

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

As far as intellect, what else is there? Without intellect, no story and no world.

The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

If you question your thoughts about when your son is not healthy, you come to see that you're the only one you're worried about. It's like without him, you're not happy - so it's all about your happiness. You want him to live for you - for your happiness.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.