Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.

You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

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

Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.