You can never make yourself believe that you're loveable, however hard you try, because when the chips are down what you really believe rises to the surface of the mind to replace what you want to believe.

To argue with reality is to argue with God

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

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.