The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.

Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all.

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.