Reality doesn’t ever wait for our agreement or approval. It is what it is. You can count on that.

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.

Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn’t ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is a way to change the projector—mind—rather than the projected. It’s like when there’s a piece of lint on a projector’s lens. We think there’s a flaw on the screen, and we try to change this person and that person, whomever the flaw appears on next. But it’s futile to try to change the projected images. Once we realize where the lint is, we can clear the lens itself. This is the end of suffering, and the beginning of a little joy in paradise.

After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”

Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?

There is no thought or situation that you can’t put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.

You’re either attaching to your thoughts or inquiring. There’s no other choice.

Rather than understand the original cause—a thought—we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.

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