Everything happens for me, not to me.

One day I noticed that I wasn’t breathing—I was being breathed.

Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.

We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

The Work is: Judge your neighbor, write it down, ask four questions, turn it around. That’s it. Simple stuff.

The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.

As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing “out there” is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.

I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.

Lack of understanding is always painful.

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.

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