- The urge to make a fresh start does not usually occur to us until we have hit bottom as a result of having been asleep in a dream.
- There is a purpose for every disturbance, but the sleeping mind does not know the true purpose, and so it searches its own library of content for an explanation.
- Disturbances would not be pushed away if we understood their true function.
- Where you have been and what you have done is not who you are... unless you fall asleep in a dream, reliving the past, and become a prisoner of the dreamer.
- We keep trying to make a fresh start within the very world that we want to get away from.
- No thought is the actual thing that is being thought about, and yet in the dream it seems to be real.
- The mind only knows how to deal with the present moment through the content of the past.
- As long as you try to make a new start in the world of dreams, the only thing that can happen is the reincarnation of the same dreams.
- When you identify with thoughts and believe that they are you, then you will obey whatever they tell you to do.
- There is no hell other than the one you imagine and then try to fix.
- The mind will finally stop trying to fix everything when you see that the pain you don't want to experience is produced by trying to escape from pain.
- Spiritual transformation is a process of discovering that you are not who and what you think you are.
- The awareness of our own internal spiritual captivity is genuine service to yourself and the world.