15 quotes found
“It's not your job to like me - it's mine”
“All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.”
“I've always been just me, but I was the last to know that it was all right.”
“I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.”
“The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.”
“The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match - they're reflections of each other. The world is a mirror image of your mind.”
“A thought is harmless unless we believe it. Its not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that its true, without inquiring....”
“Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasnt ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is a w...”
“As long as you think that the cause of your problem is out thereas long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your sufferingthe situation is hopeless. It means that you are foreve...”
“If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You dont have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In ...”
“The reason I love rules and plans and religions is that people feel safe in them for a while. And, personally, I don't have any rules. I don't need them. There's a sense of order that goes on all t...”
“I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I...”
“One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't ...”
“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 inquirin...”
“As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are fo...”