Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call "the dream." Often the dream becomes troubling; sometimes it even turns into a nightmare. At times like these, you may want to test the truth of your theories by doing The Work on them. The Work always leaves you with less of your uncomfortable story. Who would you be without it? How much of your world is made up of unexamined stories? You'll never know until you inquire.

Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening.

What I invite people to do is to look at their lives just the way that they have lived them. Not to change anything, and not to do positive thinking at all.