If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the dream of past and future. Such clarity, such simplicity. No room for problem-making. Just this moment as it is.

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.