- “It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine”
- “Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it… it’s just easier if you do.”
- “Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience;
- “Taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them”
- “All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.”
- “Don’t believe every thing you think.”
- “The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.”
- “When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.”
- “Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.”
- “When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your work is done.”
- “Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.”
- “Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.”
- “You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.”
- “In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.”
- “Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.”
- “If I say, if I talk about, ‘I want to be enlightened…’ it implies a future. And there isn’t any.”
- “I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn’t know about gurus and wise people—I wasn’t a reader.”
- “Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it… it’s just easier if you do.”
- “Personalities don’t love. They want something.”
- “Would you rather be right or free?”
- “The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.”
- “You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?”
- “The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.”
- “The teacher you need is the person you’re living with.”
- “Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.”
