When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.

Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.

Who I believed myself to be was a hopeless case. I would wake up in the mornings and notice I was still alive and breathing and hate God, hate myself, hate life, and contemplate ways of killing myself.

You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.

The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.