Let's take a shortcut that can last a lifetime. Answer this question: Who would you be without the story "My future depends on making a lot of money"? Happier. More relaxed. With or without the money. You'd have everything you wanted money for in the first place.

if you are here fully, here contains everything you ever wanted. It's very sweet, because here is where you always are.

How do you react when you believe the thought that if you had more money you'd be happier? You get to be unhappy now.

But when we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.

The job you do out there in the apparent world is secondary. It's only a place for you to judge, inquire, and know yourself. Your true job is to appreciate what is; your primary profession is to be clear.

we're just waiting for one teacher, just one, to give us permission to be who we are now, so that we can all come to know that that's what is normal for us.

The four questions:1. Is it true?2. Can you absolutely know that it's true?3. How do you react when you believe that thought?4. Who would you be without the thought?Apply each of these four questions in turn to the stressful thought. Ask yourself the question, sit still, wait, and allow your answer to surface from deep within.Once you've walked you

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are.

Thoughts are friends, not enemies. They're just what is. They appear. They're innocent. We're not doingthem. They're not personal. They're like the breeze or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. Thoughts arise like that, and we can make friends with them.