“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.”

“All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.”

“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...”

“I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.”

“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.”

“As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which...”

“Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.”

“Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of time coaching students individually on their writing and thinking. St...”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”

“Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers. ”

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

“I could not think without writing.”