Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties. It is letting go of our pattern of reactions to those difficulties.

I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with them. They can sense this is phony. They can sense I am trying to control them: I am agreeing with them to make them like me. They feel; "I don't want to exist to like you. I DON'T exist to like you."

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.