Just because we love someone, we begin to notice that love is an experience and we have to do something with it. We don't have to marry people or date them because we care about them very deeply. It's an experience.
The world begins with what we believe.
The Work is four questions and a turnaround. The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering and violence in the world. The Work is a very, very simple process. It's for anyone who can answer a question that is willing to. It takes a bit of willingness and an open mind.
Even breathing is a contribution.
My life is a contribution.
We begin to not be human, as we've known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we're confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
What I say and what I'm really experiencing - those universes are very different.
We all begin to do what we can do, just like we're doing now, to clean up the planet and to find solutions rather than fight. It just happens everywhere.
I have an expression I say a lot: I'm in a hurry. There's suffering on this planet that is so easy to break through if the mind is open to doing so.
Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.
It's quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
Look at your life without the thought "Something terrible is going to happen."
What I invite people to do is to look at their lives just the way that they have lived them. Not to change anything, and not to do positive thinking at all.
When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
Sometimes the concept you're questioning makes more sense to ask just the second one and not the first one.
The mind is so tricky. It will say, "No one cares. Is it true? Well, someone does. Let's see: So-and-so doesn't care. Well, maybe they do. Well, there is someone who doesn't care." It just shifts and shifts and shifts, so it can keep all of its concepts intact.
It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.
When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.
I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.
I really believe I'm right. So, tell me, where am I wrong?
Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.
They say, "Katie, you're wrong." And if I say, "How dare you say that? I have studied and studied." Or, "I am an expert in" whatever area we're talking about. Or, "No, you are wrong! And I think you're rude!" Or anything like that, and if we don't say it out loud, maybe we think it, but that's stressful. The moment I've defended, in any way, I've started the war.
If someone says, "Katie, you are out of order," over something I've said, or, "Katie, you are wrong," if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war.
I invite everyone to question their thoughts about their children and allow their children to be free. That's when we stop teaching our children fear.
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