Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way back home.

When you experience anything as separate or unacceptable, inquiry can bring you back to the peace you felt before you believed that thought. If you aren’t completely comfortable in the world, do The Work. That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for—that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realiza

Can you see a reason to drop this thought that

[This is the first of the four questions: Is it true?]

If I simply accept reality, I’ll become passive. I may even lose the desire to act.” I answer them with a question: “Can you really know that that’s true?” Which is more empowering?—“I wish I hadn’t lost my job” or “I lost my job; what can I do now?”

“Sweetheart, I hear that you had a wonderful phone call. I love that, and I would also like you to leave the room now. I have a deadline to meet.”

[The fourth question: Who would you be without the thought?]

as long as you think that anyone or anything else is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of the victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.

I’ve never seen a work or money problem that didn’t turn out to be a thinking problem.