When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I'm insane.

I'm the one who changes the world if I can follow what I think should and shouldn't be lived in this world.

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

If you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand, until you can love the thoughts that appear in your mind, then you can love the rest of us. You work with the projector -the mind - not the projected world. I can't really love you until I question the mind that thinks it sees you outside itself . . .

I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.

We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.