Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

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

It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.

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

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

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."

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.