The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

Don't strive for love, be it.

I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.