Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation) would want us to work to be unafraid, precisely because it is not possible for a separate self to be unafraid!

Feeling bad is not a requirement; it’s something we agree to. Cut it loose!

It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.

Breathe in a smile; breathe out a chuckle. (You can do it.)

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.