Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.
Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life
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.
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 forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.
Who would you be without your story?
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. “If I feel peaceful,” they say, “why would I bother taking action at all?” My answer is “Because that's what love does.” To think that we need sadness or outrage to motivate us to do what's right is insane. As if the clearer and happier you get, the less kind you become. As if when someone finds freedom, she just sits around all day with drool running down her chin. My experience is the opposite. Love is action.
I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.
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 don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.
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 suffer.
Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.
Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be cause by another person. No one outside me can hurt me. That’s not a possibility. It’s only when I believe a stressful thought that I get hurt. And I’m the one who’s hurting me by believing what I think. This is very good news, because it means that I don’t have to get someone else to stop hurting me. I’m the one who can stop hurting me. It’s within my power.
Defense is the first act of war.
You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.
Never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
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.
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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