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"Everything happens for me, not to me."

"Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it."

"When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done."

"You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible."

"If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen."

"What is is. You don’t get a vote. Haven’t you noticed?"

"There are no physical problems—only mental ones."

"You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice."

"No one has ever been angry at another human being—we’re only angry at our story of them."

"When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want."

"We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything."

"Forgiveness is realizing that what you thought happened, didn’t."

"Ultimately, I am all I can know."

"Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear."

"You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer."

"The miracle of love comes to us in the presence of the uninterpreted moment."

"The teacher you need is the person you’re living with."

"The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you've got and enhance it. Any rel…"

"We say to others only what we need to hear."

"For me, reality is God, because it rules."

"No one can hurt me—that’s my job."

"Defense is the first act of war."

"You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood."

"How do I know that I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it."

"Everyone and everything is doing its job perfectly—no mistake."

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"We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself."

"The last story: God is everything, God is good."

"An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering."

"Personalities don’t love—they want something."

"“I don’t know” is my favorite position."

"Thoughts aren’t personal. They just appear, like raindrops. Would you argue with a raindrop?"

"The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it."

"Gratitude is what we are without a story."

"Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom."

"If I think you’re my problem, I’m insane."

"If you want to see the love of your life, look in the mirror."

"I don’t let go of concepts—I question them. Then they let go of me."

"I could find only three kinds of business in the world—mine, yours, and God’s. Whose business are you in?"

"Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’ve attached to something not true for you."

"We do only three things in life: we sit, we stand, we lie horizontal. The rest is just a story."

"In my experience, it takes only one person to have a successful relationship, and that's me."

"Arguing with reality is like trying to teach a cat to bark—hopeless."

"When I argue with reality, I lose—but only 100% of the time."

"When I walk into a room, I know that everyone in it loves me. I just don’t expect them to realize it yet."

"Sanity doesn’t suffer, ever."

"Until you look forward to criticism, your Work’s not done."

"Would you rather be right or free?"

"Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you."

"Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it’s over."

"I’m a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality."

"We are entering the dimension where we have control - the inside."

"Just keep coming home to yourself. You are the one you’ve been waiting for."

"Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it."

"There are no new stressful thoughts. They’re all recycled."

"Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself."