- The mind can only approach the meaning of something through thoughts about it.
- You cannot separate yourself from life without suffering for that separation. We are punished by a nature that is never satisfied with where it is.
- When you really know the meaning of something, you don't have to look for it.
- Life is trying to show you the meaninglessness of your present life. The problem is that we are trying to attach meaning to -- and derive a sense of self from -- things that are lifeless.
- Being asleep is the same as believing that every thought knows the meaning of every event.
- The real meaning of any event is greater than the sum of its parts, while thought can see only the part.
- When you react to a moment, it is the reaction of a nature that is measuring whether or not the event matches its view of reality. The reaction then creates the very condition that it doesn't want.
- The ghost of the past tells us what should happen in the future and rejects anything in the present that doesn't match.
- Without know it, we are looking for the meaning of life in all the wrong places because of a nature that defines what the meaning is.
- What you want to blame outside of yourself does not exist apart from the "you" that is defining what the source of the problem is.
- The mind's meaning comes about through separation, while real meaning is born of unity. Our present meaning is a derivative of being apart from life.
- Real meaning is not something that thought adds to life after the moment has taken place. We don't have to create meaning.
- Real meaning exists through the marriage of the Will of Heaven as it meets the will of the earth. "Not my will, but thine, be done." Real meaning is a living relationship.
- A mind that is always trying to force life to match its meaning will never know contentment.
- The individual who is continually renewed is the one who stands in the interior place where the Will of Heaven meets the will of earth, aware of the relationship.
