"The point is to abide with the reality of here and now without mental influences."

Stepping out of self-deception - p. 116

"We are not going anywhere or becoming anyone."

Stepping out of self-deception - p. 91

"The sense-of-self forms conclusions because it fears living within the ambiguity of a question.

As we journey along our spiritual path, we become more willing to move from mental certainty to the open amazement of not knowing."

Stepping out of self-deception - p. 64

"All emotions are observed as experiences only, pointing nowhere, implicating no one, and signifying nothing.

Emotions need observation and allowance, not our analysis or fixation.

We allow the emotion to return to nothing by adding nothing to it all along the way."

Stepping out of self-deception - p. 58, 60

"There is no single cause for any event. Events arise dependent upon many factors, with everything in the universe colluding to make a single incident occur."

Stepping out of self-deception - p. 55

"Thought is often a reaction to an emotion and is an attempt to justify the experience of an emotion.

The thinking is trying to solve the emotion, but the emotion is unconscious, so the thinking continues to spin out of control. An emotion is not caused by an external event; the mind assigns an emotion to an external event. The confusion is resolved when we focus on the emotion and let it be what it is, while at the same time releasing the need to think our way out of the emotion."

Stepping out of self-deception - p. 55

"The sense-of-self comes into play when we think reality can be altered.

The mind gives birth to the sense-of-self when we are disputing the conditions of reality." 

Stepping out of self-deception - p. 49

"Suffering is the desire for more choices than reality offers, but reality is without options."

Stepping out of self-deception - p. 45

"The point of meditation is to see what we are bringing to experience, and then to see that whatever we bring is extra and needs to be discarded."

Stepping out of self-deception - p. 42

"Our true nature is wordless awareness."

Stepping out of self-deception - p. 37