Do I need to upset myself in order to swing into action and do something about it? You know, there’s an assumption that if you don’t upset yourself, if you don’t train people to upset themselves, they’re not going to do anything. But look: Here’s someone who doesn’t have enough to eat, and that’s a calamity. Now, you’ve gone and upset yourself. We’

Your life is in a mess because you have wrong ideas. It’s not because there’s anything wrong with you. You’re okay, and I’m okay. You’re okay, we’re all okay. We’re great. There’s nothing wrong with us. But, they put wrong ideas into our heads. Somebody did. We needn’t spend too much time trying to catch the culprit. But anyway, you have wrong idea

When misery caused by attachment is dropped, happiness is attained.

My God, how childish can people get? And they don’t know their childishness. They’ve got to blame somebody. But, no. Maturity is understanding that no one is to blame. Or better still, and more accurately put, maturity is not giving yourself the childish emotional outlet of blaming others or yourself but, rather, seeing what went wrong and setting

“For peace of heart, resign as general manager of the universe.” I’m not the general manager; I do what I can. I plunge in, and the result is left to God, to life, to destiny.

Are you getting some inkling of what it would mean if you really grasped this? You’d be above it all. That’s one nice definition of spirituality. Spirituality means no longer being at the mercy of an event, or a person, or anything else. I didn’t say not to love people. I said, You’re not at their mercy anymore. You’re no longer at the mercy of an

We’re scared about things that are not. We’re tied to things that don’t exist. They’re illusions. They’re falsehoods. They’re beliefs; they’re not realities. The agonies we go through over things that we have—we have convinced ourselves that our happiness depends upon them, but it doesn’t.

Love means, “I’m perfectly happy without you, darling, it’s all right.” It means, “And I wish you good, and I leave you free. And when I get you, I’m delighted; and when I don’t, I’m not miserable.”

The biggest enemy of love is attachments. Desire, in the sense of attachment. You know why? Because if I desire you, I want to possess you. I can’t leave you free. I’ve got to get you. I’ve got to manipulate you so that I can get you, if I desire you in this way. I’m going to manipulate myself, so that I can hoodwink you into allowing me to get you