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.

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled.

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.